INFORMATION OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION Dissertation tittle: “Develop the contingent of principals for lower-secondary schools in Ho Chi Minh City to meet the requirements of educational renovation” Speciality: Educational Management Code: 9140114 Ph.D Candidate: Huynh Thi Ngoc Mai Supervisors: Assoc Prof Dr Ha The Truyen Dr Vu Lan Huong Training Institution: University of Education - Thai Nguyen University NEW SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS OF THE DISSERTATION In terms of theories, The dissertation has generalized a number of domestic and foreign studies on developing school principals; developed a theoretical framework for the school principal contigent and the development of school principals in the approach of management and human resource development, including planning, recruiting, appointing, using, evaluating competency and fostering the staff, decentralization of state management in education, building working environment, creating motivation for development, and implementing policies for lower-secondary school principals; pointed out the factors affecting the development of lower-secondary school principals to meet the requirements of educational innovation In terms of practice, - The dissertation has assessed the status of the lower-secondary school principals, the development of the lower-secondary school principals in Ho Chi Minh City, and at the same time pointed out the limitations and causes of limitations in developing principals in the current context of general education renovation - Proposed measures to develop the lower-secondary school principals to meet the requirements of education renovation, including: Concretize the standards of the general education institution principals to develop the lower-secondary school principals to meet the requirements of education innovation; Organize the elaboration, periodic review and supplementation of plannings on managerial officials and lowersecondary school principals in each period; Decentralize the state management in education for lower secondary schools in the direction of creating initiative for the Department of Education and Training; Innovate methods of appointment and rotation of secondary school principals according to management decentralization; Direct the training and retraining of lower-secondary school principals and planned source managers to meet the requirements of educational renovation; Manage the inspectation and evaluation of lower-secondary school principals according to the standards of general education institution principals; Complete the city-specific preferential policy to motivate the development of lower-secondary school principals APPLICATIONS IN PRACTICE AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER STUDIES Practical applications of the research results - The thesis's theoretical research results can be used as a reference for the leadership and managerial staff on staff development and human resource building in the current context, a reference for undergraduate students, master students and PhD students majoring in Education Management - The practical research results of the thesis can be used to look up and compare with the reality of the capacity of the educational management staff and the lowersecondary school principals in other areas of the country for the purpose of researching and proposing measures to develop lower-secondary school principals in the competence-based approach - The measures proposed in the thesis help policymakers to develop regulations and policies for lower-secondary school principals in accordance with the development requirements of education; help institutions of training and fostering educational management officials develop programs and organize fostering lower-secondary school principals in particular and educational managers in general Recommendations for further studies: In the context of globalization and international integration, the content of developing lower-secondary school principals is always a matter of continuous improvement Therefore, the theoretical framework, the current situation and the measures for developing principals should be further studied to complete the theoretical framework and to enrich the information on the current situation as well as to diversify the measures for developing principals of secondary schools nationwide, meeting the requirements of education and training renovation in the subsequent periods Confirmation of Scientific Supervisors Assoc Prof Dr Ha The Truyen Dr Vu Lan Huong Ph.D Student Huynh Thi Ngoc Mai Dean of Faculty of Psychology and Education Assoc Prof Dr Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen ... international integration, the content of developing lower-secondary school principals is always a matter of continuous improvement Therefore, the theoretical framework, the current situation and the... Student Huynh Thi Ngoc Mai Dean of Faculty of Psychology and Education Assoc Prof Dr Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen