Tuition fee increase from 2023-2024 school year

SGGP 05/12/2023 07:14

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha recently had a meeting with the Ministry of Education and Training on tuition fees and textbooks for the 2023-2024 school year.

11th grade teacher and students of Vo Van Kiet High School (District 8, HCMC) during a class hour. Photo: THU TAM

Regarding the plan to adjust tuition fees for the 2023-2024 school year, the Ministry of Education and Training said that it is expected that in early July, local People's Councils will approve tuition fees for the new school year. For higher education, schools must decide on tuition fees and notify them before candidates register for admission.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha agreed with the plan for universities and vocational training institutions to implement a roadmap to increase tuition fees in accordance with Decree 81/2021/ND-CP (regulations on the mechanism for collecting and managing tuition fees for educational institutions in the national education system and policies on tuition exemption and reduction, and support for learning costs); at the same time, there must be appropriate support policies, creating conditions for policy beneficiaries, the poor, the disadvantaged and vulnerable to have equal access to higher education.

For other levels of education, the adjustment of tuition fees is decided by the People's Councils of provinces and cities according to local conditions. The Ministry of Education and Training needs to clearly assess the social impact, especially the impact on policy beneficiaries, disadvantaged groups, and those who cannot even go to school due to increased tuition fees, and from there, have specific support plans.

In areas with economic conditions that need to promote socialization, encourage autonomy for public educational institutions on the basis of correctly and fully calculating educational costs, allocating the state budget to support policy groups, disadvantaged groups, in remote areas, ensuring the principle of not reducing the state budget invested in education.

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just announced the list of textbooks for grades 4, 8 and 11 used in educational institutions in Ho Chi Minh City from the 2023-2024 school year.

Accordingly, for grade 4, there are a total of 27 approved textbooks in 12 subjects. Of which, English, Fine Arts and Physical Education have 3 approved textbooks each; the remaining subjects of Vietnamese, Mathematics, Ethics, Science, History and Geography, Experiential Activities, Technology, Music, and Information Technology have 2 approved textbooks each.

For grade 8, there are 36 approved textbooks in 11 subjects. Of which, English leads the number of approved textbooks with 6 textbooks; followed by Mathematics with 4 textbooks; the remaining subjects include Literature, Information Technology, History and Geography, Fine Arts (under the Arts subject), Technology, Physical Education with 3 textbooks; Natural Sciences, Career Guidance Activities, Civic Education and Music (under the Arts subject) with 2 textbooks.

In particular, grade 11 has 62 approved books in 15 subjects. Of which, Fine Arts leads the number of approved books with 11 books; followed by Physical Education with 8 approved books (many contents including badminton, volleyball, basketball, soccer, shuttlecock); Math, Technology, Information Technology, Career Guidance Activities, English have 4 approved books each; subjects including Literature, Geography, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Music, Economic and Legal Education have 3 approved books, and History alone has 2 books.

In the 2023-2024 school year, the whole country will continue to implement the 2018 General Education Program in grades 4, 8 and 11. According to the plan, the program will complete its implementation roadmap at the general education level in the 2024-2025 school year for grades 5, 9 and 12.

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