INFORMATION IS LIKE…NOT
It has been nearly a month since the Ministry of Education and Training issued a plan to implement university and college admissions for preschool education (generally called university admissions), but so far very few schools have announced their admission plans. According to admissions officers of some universities, the reason why the schools have not announced their plans is because they do not have a plan to collect tuition fees (HP). In reality, even for schools that have announced their plans, the content related to HP is only written in general and ambiguous terms. Some schools have even announced their plans, but it is the same as... not having them.
Tuition fees are one of the factors that parents and candidates consider when applying to university, but it is causing confusion for many parties.
Hanoi University of Architecture is one of the schools that announced the 2023 university admission plan early (from March 20). The plan includes 78 pages, with very detailed information. However, on page 22, in the section "Expected tuition fees for full-time students; roadmap for maximum tuition increase for each year (if any)", the information provided by the school to candidates is only less than 3 lines: "Implementation according to Decree No. 81/2021/ND-CP dated August 27, 2021 of the Government on the mechanism of tuition collection and management for educational institutions in the national education system and policies on tuition exemption, reduction, support for learning costs; service prices in the field of education and training".
I DON'T KNOW WHAT LEVEL TO COLLECT
It is worth mentioning that the provisions in Decree 81 are quite broad, covering many cases: higher education institutions that have not self-financed regular expenses, public higher education institutions that self-financed regular expenses; public higher education institutions that self-financed regular expenses and investment expenses; training programs of public higher education institutions that have been audited. In particular, since the Government issued Decree 81, universities have not once implemented the decree, due to the Covid-19 pandemic for two consecutive years and the past year being "post-Covid". Therefore, the HP levels of schools can differ many times. Even within a school, in the same industry, and all being mass training programs, the HP can differ several times due to the factor of whether the program has been audited or not, as Decree 81 mentioned.
Many universities have not yet provided clear information about tuition fees for the next school year because they do not know how to direct this issue.
When Thanh Nien reporters asked about the specific HP level for the 2023-2024 school year, an official of Hanoi University of Architecture answered even more mysteriously: "The school welcomes candidates to learn about and take the entrance exam to Hanoi University of Architecture. For any needs to learn about the school, including HP issues, candidates can find out on the admissions website or can also go directly to the reception department at Office 1 of the school to get answers and direct advice."
Some other schools, although showing efforts in providing information about HP to students, are unclear, because they have to wait for… instructions.
On April 13, the Principal of Hanoi University of Civil Engineering decided to approve the university's university admissions plan, which clearly stated that the expected tuition fee for students in the 2023-2024 school year is 11.7 million VND. But later, a leader of the school told Thanh Nien that he would add to the plan the following content: "The expected tuition fee according to the Government's regulations at the present time is 11.7 million VND/school year/student. The school will adjust the tuition fee when there are new regulations from the state". It is known that 11.7 million VND/student/school year is the tuition fee for the 2020-2021 school year for technical majors for non-autonomous schools, stipulated in Decree 85 (issued by the Government in October 2015; Decree 81 was issued to replace Decree 85).
The proposal of the University of Transport (announced on February 7) provides a lot of information, but interested people have to use a calculator to know how much they will have to pay. Specifically, the school announced the current HP level that the school is applying for each major; then announced the expected increase roadmap, the Government allows an increase of 23% but the school only plans to increase by 10% (if calculating the average student studying 30 credits per year, the HP for the engineering, mathematics and information technology majors is more than 13.7 million VND/student; the service major is 11.7 million VND/student; the economic major is 11.2 million VND/student). But at the end of the HP section, the project adds the sentence: "When the school is approved by the competent authority for the regular expenditure autonomy project, HP will be collected according to the project, but the general system will not increase more than 1.5 times, the high-quality system will not increase more than 2 times the HP level prescribed by Decree 81/ND-CP for schools that are not yet autonomous." That means how much HP is, we will discuss it later!
The Diplomatic Academy has also just announced a project, in which the tuition fee section also states that it is implemented according to Decree 81. Of which, 6/8 majors have been accredited, so the school collects 4.4 million VND/student/month; 2 majors that have not been accredited collect 2.1 million VND/student/month. The Diplomatic Academy is a public unit that ensures its own regular expenses. According to an officer in charge of training at the Diplomatic Academy, if following the tuition fee collection roadmap prescribed by the Government in Decree 81, the fee for the 2 majors that have not been accredited is 2.4 million VND/student/month. However, because in the previous 2 school years the school implemented the Government's general policy of not increasing tuition fees, the next school year can only increase at an acceptable level compared to last year.
C WAIT… FOR DIRECTIONS
According to the explanation of the schools, the reason why information about HP for the next school year is not clear is because they do not know what instructions from higher levels on this issue will be. The Government issued Decree 81 (August 2021) when the whole country was facing the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, right after issuing Decree 81, the Government had to request schools not to increase HP for the 2020-2021 school year.
The 2022-2023 school year began after the Covid-19 pandemic was brought under control. Right from the beginning of the school year, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son informed in official conferences that the Ministry was proposing that the Government issue a document requesting universities not to increase tuition fees to reduce the burden on the people. However, a long time later, there was still no directive document, so all schools had to collect tuition fees according to the increase schedule stipulated in Decree 81 (but delayed by one year, meaning that the actual collection level for the 2022-2023 school year was equal to the collection level stipulated in Decree 81 for the 2021-2022 school year). On December 20, 2022, the Government issued Resolution 165 on tuition fees for public educational institutions for the 2022-2023 school year. It requires public higher education institutions to maintain stable tuition fees for this school year, equal to the 2021-2022 school year.
Implementing Resolution 165, a series of universities must reissue decisions on the regulations on HP levels for the 2022-2023 school year, and at the same time arrange personnel to calculate the HP levels that have been collected in excess to return to students. "If Decree 81 is still implemented, schools cannot apply the original regulations, that is, collect according to the framework of the 2023-2024 school year in Decree 81. Because if so, HP will skyrocket, people will react. As for collecting according to the delayed roadmap, the Government must direct. But now, schools cannot do it in the way of collecting according to their own subjective speculation and then sit down and calculate to return the excess money to students," a university leader analyzed.
Tuition fees of foreign schools in Vietnam
Ms. Le Thi Quynh Tram, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Fulbright University Vietnam, said that for many years the school has maintained the HP level of 467.6 million VND/year and it will remain the same in 2023. However, according to Ms. Tram, every year up to 2/3 of the school's students receive partial or full HP support depending on their specific difficult circumstances.
Meanwhile, at RMIT University, HP will be paid per semester, based on the number of subjects students study. Accordingly, the HP level applied for 2023, the whole course is from 288 - 384 credits depending on the major. For a major of 288 credits per year, students pay 318.6 million VND and the whole course is 955.9 million VND. For a major of 384 credits (software engineering, robotics and mechatronics, electronic engineering and computer systems), students pay 318.6 million VND per year and the whole course is 1.274 billion VND.
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