In the 2024-2025 school year, Vietnam Education Publishing House will adjust and reduce the selling prices of reprinted textbooks for grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 11. At the same time, it will establish selling prices for grades 5, 9, and 12.
On June 1, at the regular Government meeting in May 2024, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assessed that reducing textbook prices by an average of 15% has contributed to reducing inflationary pressure and stabilizing the CPI index.
In the 2024-2025 school year, the Vietnam Education Publishing House will adjust the selling price of reprinted textbooks for grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 11. At the same time, it will establish the selling price of textbooks for grades 5, 9, and 12 (published in the first year) according to the reduced price structure of reprinted textbooks.
About textbook prices according to the 2018 General Education Program
- For reprinted textbooks (grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11):
The Education Publishing House has reviewed related cost items, especially the cost of organizing manuscripts and circulation costs to reduce textbook prices. Accordingly, the new cover prices of reprinted textbooks applied from the 2024-2025 school year have been adjusted down compared to previous years. Specifically, the cover price of the textbook series " Connecting knowledge with life" has decreased by 9.6%, the cover price of the textbook series " Creative horizon" has decreased by 11.2%.
- For textbook prices for grades 5, 9, 12: Education Publishing House has built prices according to the reduced price structure of reprinted textbooks.
The price of textbooks for each class has been declared by the Education Publishing House to the Price Management Department - Ministry of Finance in accordance with regulations.
Implementing the direction of the Ministry of Education and Training on strictly controlling production costs, reducing costs to reduce textbook prices, supporting consumers, ensuring social security; implementing the recommendations in Resolution 686/NQ-UBTVQH15-2023 dated September 18, 2023 of the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Education Publishing House has adjusted to reduce textbook prices. This is a great effort of the entire Education Publishing House system to have the lowest textbook prices, for the purpose of supporting students and teachers, ensuring social security.
- To ensure accuracy, clarity, and protect the rights of students and users, the new price list of textbooks has been fully and publicly posted at textbook sales points nationwide; on the general electronic information page of the Education Publishing House (at www.nxbgd.vn) and information on mass media as prescribed.
Shared textbook cabinet
In order to create a source of learning and teaching materials for students and teachers to use together in school libraries, in the 2024-2025 school year, the Education Publishing House plans to donate about 1,000 textbook shelves for shared use to primary and secondary schools in disadvantaged areas, remote areas, border areas, islands... in provinces and cities nationwide with a total cover price of about 30 billion VND.
In the 2023-2024 school year, the Education Publishing House has launched a program to donate 1,000 shared textbook cabinets to primary schools in disadvantaged areas nationwide.
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