TRANSPORTING THE IMAGE OF HO CHI MINH TO THE TEACHER IN BUILDING A TEACHING TEAM THAT MEETS THE NEW REQUIREMENTS

Abstract

Throughout his revolutionary career, President Ho Chi Minh paid special attention to education and teachers. He considered teaching a highly honourable profession and regarded teachers as “soldiers on the ideological and cultural front”, playing a decisive role in the “cultivation of people” and in training generations to carry on the revolutionary cause. In the current context, the Communist Party of  Viet Nam and the State have promulgated a series of new policies, notably the Politburo’s Conclusion No. 91-KL/TW (2024) on further implementation of Resolution No. 29-NQ/TW, Resolution No. 71-NQ/TW (2025) on breakthrough development in education and training, and the Teachers Law No. 73/2025/QH15 (2025) – the first sectoral law on teachers. Drawing on Ho Chi Minh’s thought on teachers, this article clarifies the core contents relating to the position and role of teachers, their qualities, style and methods; analyses new requirements for the teaching workforce in the context of implementing Conclusion 91-KL/TW, Resolution 71-NQ/TW and the Teachers Law; and proposes several orientations and policy implications for educational management in order to build a teaching workforce that is both virtuous and competent, politically steadfast, ethically committed, professionally capable and digitally competent, thus meeting the demands of educational reform and national development towards 2030 and 2045.