Quang Nam proposes to use 158 billion VND to support tuition fees for public and private students

Quang Nam plans to use 158 billion VND to support tuition fees for public and private students - Photo: LE TRUNG

On September 26, at the 26th session of the 10th term People's Council of Quang Nam province, the Provincial People's Committee submitted a proposal to approve the project and issue a resolution to support tuition fees for educational institutions in this locality in the two school years 2024-2025 and 2025-2026.

Reading the report, Mr. Thai Viet Tuong - Director of the Department of Education and Training of Quang Nam - said that according to statistics, the total tuition revenue for the period 2016-2024 for public educational institutions is estimated to be 539 billion VND (an average of nearly 67 billion VND per year), the total tuition revenue of the whole province each year accounts for 1.4% - 1.7% of the total regular expenditure on education of the province.

Tuition revenue is used to pay salaries for preschool, middle school, and high school teachers and supplement expenses for educational activities.

Besides tuition fees, in recent years, the State has also paid great attention to the policy of tuition exemption and reduction.

In fact, in recent years, the province has been adversely affected by natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic.

In order to partially resolve the difficulties for the people, the People's Council issued a resolution regulating tuition fees and tuition support for public educational institutions in the province.

In the 2024-2025 school year, the province's socio-economic situation continues to face many difficulties, so the Provincial Party Standing Committee agreed to submit to the Provincial People's Council at this session to consider and issue a resolution regulating tuition support levels for public educational institutions in the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 school years.

At the same time, research and supplement the beneficiaries of tuition support for non-public institutions at the same level as public institutions.

Up to now, in addition to 725 public schools, the province has 722 private preschools and 72 non-public schools.

According to the content of the proposal, the subjects of application include: preschool children, high school students studying at public and private preschools and general education institutions.

Students study continuing education programs at the Provincial Continuing Education Center and at public general education institutions.

Not applicable to preschool children and students of general schools belonging to foreign-invested educational institutions.

Regarding support policies, the state budget supports 100% of tuition fees according to the tuition fee collection level for public preschool and general education institutions that are not self-sufficient in regular expenses as prescribed by the Provincial People's Council.

Subjects who are entitled to tuition fee reduction according to central and provincial policies are provided with support equal to 100% of the tuition fee for preschool and general education institutions that are not self-sufficient in regular expenses as prescribed by the Provincial People's Council.

The total provincial budget support for the two school years above is 158 billion VND.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/quang-nam-de-xuat-dung-158-ti-dong-ho-tro-hoc-phi-cho-hoc-sinh-cong-lap-va-tu-thuc-20240926101837157.htm