The Government issued Decree No. 60/2025/ND-CP (Decree 60) dated March 3, 2025 amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 116/2020/ND-CP dated September 25, 2020 (Decree 116) regulating policies to support tuition fees and living expenses for pedagogical students.
Decree No. 60 was issued to overcome limitations and difficulties in the implementation of Decree No. 116, while continuing to inherit the results achieved in implementing support policies, attracting excellent and dedicated students to study and work, and contributing to the education sector.
Decree 116 has great significance
Decree 116, when issued, had many new and meaningful policies, attracting many excellent students to register to study and contribute to the education sector.
Specifically: Pedagogical students are supported with tuition fees and living expenses. Associated with the responsibility of students after graduation is to work for a certain period of time in the education sector or else they will have to repay the support funds.
Assign responsibility to provinces and centrally run cities in assigning tasks, placing orders or bidding for training of pedagogical students. Students who are recruited according to assigned quotas but are not subject to ordering, assigning tasks or bidding will still enjoy support policies under the category of "training according to social needs".
After 3 years of implementation, Decree 116 has achieved certain results such as: the number of candidates and parents interested in teacher training majors has increased; the rate of candidates registering for admission, the admission score and the rate of candidates enrolling in teacher training majors have increased sharply in relation to other majors and training fields; and the quality of teachers has improved.
However, the implementation of Decree 116 has encountered some difficulties such as: localities committed to placing orders but did not do so, leading to delays in payment of funds; regulations on bidding for teacher training do not have specific instructions; some localities have difficulties and do not have enough funds to support student teachers; the training of student teachers and the recruitment of students after graduation into the education sector are not synchronized; there are no detailed instructions on monitoring and reimbursement of funds...
Overcoming the situation where student teachers do not enjoy or are slow to enjoy support policies
The Government has assigned the Ministry of Education and Training to review, amend and supplement Decree 116 to remove obstacles and ensure feasible and effective implementation.
Decree 60 regulates the method of financial support for pedagogical students, in which the State supports pedagogical students by assigning budget estimates according to budget decentralization; in cases where localities have a need for teachers that need to be assigned tasks or placed orders, the task of teacher training will be assigned to affiliated teacher training institutions or teacher training orders will be placed with teacher training institutions.
With this regulation, training facilities for pedagogical students and pedagogical students will be funded more promptly and adequately, contributing to creating conditions for pedagogical students to study with peace of mind and improving the quality of the teaching staff.
Clarifying the responsibility for ensuring funding to implement support policies for pedagogical students
Decree No. 60 additionally clarifies the responsibilities of relevant parties such as the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Finance, provincial People's Committees, teacher training institutions, learners... in implementing the policy; especially clarifying the responsibility of ensuring funding to implement support policies for pedagogical students.
Decree 60 also provides more detailed instructions on the procedures for paying refunds in cases where refunds are required according to regulations; the responsibilities of teacher training institutions, agencies assigning tasks, and ordering pedagogical students in coordinating with agencies and individuals in paying support funds and recovering refunds; and the responsibilities of learners in fulfilling their commitment to refund funds.
Support disadvantaged localities; ensure all pedagogical students enjoy policies
Decree No. 60 supplements the provision: The budget for implementing the policies in this Decree is balanced in the annual state budget expenditure estimates according to the current management decentralization. The central budget supports local budgets to implement policies according to the principle of targeted support from the central budget to local budgets to implement social security policies issued by competent authorities applicable for each period.
At the same time, Decree No. 60 also adds a transitional provision, according to which "The central budget supports local budgets to implement support policies for pedagogical students from the 2021-2022 school year to the end of the 2024-2025 school year according to the principle of targeted support from the central budget to local budgets to implement social security policies issued by competent authorities applicable for each period". This provision overcomes the situation where some localities cannot balance their budgets to implement support policies for pedagogical students, while ensuring implementation in accordance with the provisions of the 2019 Education Law.
Removing obstacles in the implementation mechanism of support policies for pedagogical students
To remove obstacles in the implementation of Decree 116, ensure proper guidance in Article 85 of the 2019 Law on Education and implement timely support policies for pedagogical students, Decree No. 60 stipulates: Implementing support methods for pedagogical students in training in the form of budget allocation (training method according to social needs in Decree 116). At the same time, Decree No. 60 still stipulates the method of assigning tasks and ordering training for pedagogical students so that localities have conditions to implement; eliminating the bidding method in higher education to comply with the provisions of Decree 32/2019/ND-CP dated April 10, 2021 of the Government regulating the assignment of tasks, ordering or bidding for the provision of public products and services using the state budget from regular expenditure sources and the actual implementation process.
Ensure feasibility in case of recovery of support funds
Decree No. 60 amends and supplements a number of contents that specifically stipulate the responsibilities of agencies and units to ensure feasibility in fully recovering funds to support tuition and living expenses for pedagogical students who are required to refund tuition and living expenses as prescribed.
Specifically: The People's Committee of the province where the student registers permanent residence shall monitor, guide, and issue a notice to recover the support fund so that the student teacher can fully pay back the amount to be refunded according to the provisions of Article 8 of Decree 116 and Decree 60.
For pedagogical students receiving financial support in the form of assignment or order placement who are subject to reimbursement of funds as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 6 of Decree 116, the agency assigning the assignment or order placement shall monitor, guide, and issue a notice of recovery of support funds so that pedagogical students can pay back the funds as prescribed in Article 8 of Decree 116 and this Decree.
Within the time limit for performing the obligation to reimburse the costs, the student must pay the reimbursed amount to the training institution or the agency that placed the order or assigned the task (for students who are subject to the order or assigned the task).
Teacher training institutions, ordering agencies, and agencies assigning the task of paying the amount recovered from pedagogical students to the state budget according to the provisions of Article 7 of Decree No. 11/2020/ND-CP dated January 20, 2020 of the Government regulating administrative procedures in the field of state treasury and according to the provisions of the State Budget Law on management of recovered amounts paid to the budget.
* See Decree in attached file./.
Source: https://moet.gov.vn/tintuc/Pages/tin-tong-hop.aspx?ItemID=10351
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