Currently, tuition fees in higher education facilities are extremely high impeding students from poor families to continue pursuing their studies. So it is time to balance education quality and students’ access.
Tuition fees for the 2023-2024 academic year will not increase as schools have not yet implemented or applied the roadmap for the fee collection and management mechanism as per the government’s Decree No. 81/2021/ND-CP.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training requested non-public educational facilities not to increase the tuition by 10-15 percent from the previous year.
According to the Ministry of Education and Training’s amended draft, tuition fee rates in non-autonomous public schools for the academic year 2023-2024 will not increase, ranging from VND12 million-VND24.5 million a year.
The HCMC Department of Education and Training has made a draft document on tuition fees that will be applied for public kindergarten and high school levels from the academic year 2022-2023 in the city.
From 2022, tuition fees vary across schools, and tuition fees in universities increased according to Decree No. 81/2021/ND-CP of the Government. Along with that, the tuition fees of high-quality programs in public and autonomous public schools have also increased very high.
The Ministry of Education and Training proposed to immediately implement the exemption of tuition fees for all secondary school students from the school year 2022 – 2023.
Many self-financing public universities have increased tuition fees compared to before, but they have adopted many policies to support new students. In addition to the prescribed exemptions and reductions, students from low-income families, students with disabilities, and students who are beneficiaries of social welfare policies are also entitled to tuition exemption or reduction from 50 percent to 100 percent.
Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Duong Anh Duc, on the evening of September 23, signed a report to the Standing Committee of the People's Council of HCMC on the proposal to develop a Resolution on specific policies to support tuition fees for preschool children, public and non-public high school students, and continuing education students in HCMC in the 2022-2023 period.
The People’s Committee of HCMC has delegated the municipal Department of Education and Training to build a plan on tuition fee exemption in the academic year 2022-2023, said Department’s director Nguyen Van Hieu.
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