Recently, voters in An Giang province made a petition to the Ministry of Education and Training "not to increase university tuition fees to reduce difficulties for families with limited economic conditions, thereby creating opportunities for students to study with peace of mind".

Responding to this content, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son cited Decree 81/2021 of the Government regulating tuition fees of educational institutions in the national education system and policies on tuition exemption, reduction, and support for learning costs.

It stipulates a roadmap for adjusting annual tuition fees to ensure the pricing of educational services in accordance with the spirit of Resolution 19/2017 of the Central Committee on continuing to innovate the operational efficiency of public service units.

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Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son. Photo: Hoang Ha

Due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to control inflation and share difficulties with parents and students, the Government has requested ministries, branches and localities to direct educational and training institutions under their management to maintain stable tuition fees for the 2022-2023 school year as in the 2021-2022 school year.

Therefore, the tuition fees of public educational institutions have remained stable over the past 3 school years (2020-2021 to 2022-2023). This tuition fee is very low, only covering 40-50% of training costs, the rest is still supported by the state budget.

However, the Minister said that in the context of no increase in tuition fees but the state budget cutting 2.5% of regular expenditures every year, it has caused difficulties for higher education institutions.

If tuition fees remain stable and regular expenditures continue to be cut, many educational institutions will not have enough funds to operate, especially not being able to implement the service pricing roadmap as prescribed in Resolution 19.

Therefore, from the 2023-2024 school year, the Government issued Decree 97/2023 amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree 81/2021 regulating tuition fees for public universities that have not self-financed regular expenditures to comply with the tuition fee ceiling for the 2023-2024 school year.

Policies on tuition exemption and reduction, and support for study costs for students in difficult circumstances, policy beneficiaries, ethnic minority areas, mountainous areas, and islands in Decree 81/2021 continue to be implemented to reduce the financial burden on students and their families.

The Minister affirmed that in the coming time, he will coordinate with agencies to synthesize opinions during the implementation process to propose and amend Decree 81/2021 to stipulate a suitable tuition fee roadmap, ensuring the implementation of the roadmap for calculating prices for public career services in the social sector and implementing social security.

According to Decree 97/2023, the tuition ceiling (the highest level that can be collected) at public universities that do not cover their regular expenses this school year is 1.2-2.45 million VND/month.

Tuition fee ceiling for non-autonomous public universities from the 2023-2024 to 2026-2027 academic year (unit: thousand VND/month):

Industry 2023-2024 2024-2025 2025-2026 2026-2027
Block I: Educational Science and Teacher Training 1,250 1,410 1,590 1,790
Block II: Art 1,200 1,350 1,520 1,710
Industry III: Business and management, law 1,250 1,410 1,590 1,790
Block IV: Life sciences, natural sciences 1,350 1,520 1,710 1,930
Block V: Mathematics, computer statistics, information technology, engineering technology, engineering, production and processing, architecture and construction, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, veterinary medicine 1,450 1,640 1,850 2,090
Sector VI.1: Other health sectors 1,850 2,090 2,360 2,660
Industry Block VI.2: Medicine and Pharmacy 2,450 2,760 3.110 3,500
Sector VII: Humanities, social and behavioral sciences, journalism and information, social services, tourism, hotels, sports, transportation services, environment and environmental protection 1,200 1,500 1,690 1,910

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