Tuition fees at Vietnam's public schools remain unchanged

Anh Kiet

Dec 22, 2022 / 11:24 AM

Localities are encouraged to increase spending on educational institutions with public budget funds.

Schools must maintain tuition fees for the 2022-2023 academic year unchanged from the previous year.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, on December 20, signed a resolution on tuition fees of public education and training institutions for the 2022-2023 school year.

Accordingly, public educational institutions should keep tuition rates unchanged for the 2022-2023 school year to timely support students from low-income families and disadvantaged households, as well as to stabilize prices and control inflation for the country's economic recovery.

Eleven graders of Phan Huy Chu High School in Dong Da District, Hanoi. Photo: Thuy Truc/The Hanoi Times

Specifically, educational institutions that have not yet been able to cover their recurring expenses will be required to keep the tuition fees for the 2022-2023 school year equal to one for the previous school year.

Provinces and cities that have already raised tuition fees for the 2022-2023 school year will have to pay for the increase with funds from the local budget.

Self-financed educational institutions may set tuition fees. The fees shall be submitted to the provincial People's Council for consideration and approval.

Localities are encouraged to increase recurrent expenditures for educational institutions with funding from the local budget.

Higher education institutions and public vocational education institutions have been requested to keep the tuition fee rate for the 2022-2023 school year unchanged from the previous one as per the Government’s resolution dated August 27, 2021.

Localities are encouraged to mobilize legal resources to support tuition fees for the 2022-2023 academic year for students undergoing vocational training in industries in need of human resources after being affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and those in need of socio-economic recovery by the Government resolution dated January 30, 2022, on socio-economic recovery and development.

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