The Politburo's decision to exempt all tuition fees for students from kindergarten to public high school from the 2025-2026 school year is good news not only for the education sector. The World and Vietnam newspaper quotes the views of two education experts on this decision.
Vision of creating the future
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Thanh Nam, Vice Rector of University of Education (VNU)
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| Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Thanh Nam. |
As a parent, the news that the Politburo has decided to exempt tuition fees for students from kindergarten to high school nationwide from the 2025-2026 school year is a great joy. Because this decision demonstrates the vision of creating the future and the humanistic ideology of the Party and State leaders. It is a policy that is in line with the development trend of the knowledge economy and an important step forward in ensuring the right to basic education for all children.
This policy has been a dream of the education sector for many years. The understanding and practical concern will help reduce the financial burden on each family, contribute to increasing the school attendance rate and reducing the dropout rate due to economic difficulties. This is a step in the right direction to realize the goal of universalizing general education and ensuring fairness in access to education, leaving no one behind.
I believe that this policy will have positive impacts on the quality of education in general, especially improving the quality of education in disadvantaged areas. It must also be said that free general education is a trend in developed countries, aiming to ensure access to knowledge for all members of society, in line with the trend of building a learning society, towards lifelong learning. That is also the consistent and consistent guiding ideology of General Secretary To Lam expressed in the article "Lifelong Learning".
From a psychological perspective, this policy is an important step forward in reducing economic pressure on families, especially young families. When education costs are reduced, families will have more conditions to invest in the quality of each child.
Personally, I also hope that this humane policy can affect all young generations, not just limited to students studying in the public system. In the context that public education cannot meet the learning needs of the people, if the policy can support students studying outside the public system with a sum (in the form of vouchers) and the additional amount will be paid by the families, the policy will cover the whole and also create conditions to support non-public education to be competitive and improve the quality of education to serve the common cause.
To thoroughly implement this policy, great resources and determination are needed. In addition to the State budget, it is necessary to mobilize social resources and the participation of parents in supporting and monitoring the quality of education.
In addition to tuition exemption, it is necessary to continue to focus on improving the quality of education through investment in infrastructure and teaching equipment. Specifically, improving solid classrooms, adding modern equipment and applying information technology to create an advanced and friendly learning environment. At the same time, promoting teacher training and development to meet the requirements of educational innovation. The curriculum and pedagogical methods also need to be comprehensively improved, applying positive educational models, focusing on students, aiming at comprehensive development. At the same time, the assessment and accreditation of educational quality must be strengthened to ensure the effectiveness of innovative solutions.
More equitable and fair education
Dr. Cu Van Trung, Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Social Issues
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| Dr. Cu Van Trung. |
As a citizen and a parent with school-age children, I find this a very popular and correct decision by the Party. Exempting tuition fees is a manifestation of a comprehensive and in-depth concern for creating fair conditions as well as access to opportunities for all groups and classes of people in society.
This is a move that has gained more prestige and affection from the people for the Party. We have had a period when people enjoyed such a thing. In the 60s and 70s of the last century, many revolutionaries, cadres, soldiers and people received free state subsidies for their education.
Many people later achieved many successes thanks to such "socialist quality" care and support.
The book “The Hard Years, the Nostalgic Years” by writer Ma Van Khang has pages mentioning gratitude to the Party and State for the country’s superiority in education during that period. Many people of that generation became famous and continuously contributed to the country.
Now, once again, the people are enjoying a reasonable and sensible decision, which is that free tuition increasingly affirms the nature of our state as a state of the people, by the people, and for the people.
In particular, exempting tuition fees helps teachers and students in remote areas, many places that are still facing difficulties, reduce their worries and concerns, and have more opportunities to develop themselves. Ensuring opportunities and fairness between social classes, groups, regions and each citizen, creating equality in access to education and learning is a great, noble and responsible task of a state that promotes the people.
Only when every subject in society has unlimited, free access to education from the early years up to secondary school can we move towards a stable, sustainable, and prosperous society.
This policy makes people's psychology not disturbed and insecure in the context of the current competitive market economy. To be more precise, free tuition will make education more fair and equal. Besides this policy, in my opinion, if we synchronously and promptly implement solutions on the quality of the teaching staff, training programs and investment in schools for children, our education system will soon achieve many worthy achievements in the future.
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