Candidates take the sports aptitude test to enter Ho Chi Minh City University of Physical Education and Sports in 2024. Pedagogical students of this school report that the school is slow to pay living expenses - Photo: NT
Reflecting to Tuoi Tre Online , a student from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Physical Education and Sports (under the Ministry of Education and Training) said that for 7 months he has not received living expenses support for pedagogical students according to Decree 116.
Meanwhile, some students said that the money from the ministry was transferred to the school since the beginning of June 2024, but the school has not yet paid the students. When students asked, the school said that because the paperwork related to the payment has not been completed, the money has not been transferred to the students.
Discussing this issue, Mr. Nguyen Dac Thinh, head of the student affairs and community service department of Ho Chi Minh City University of Physical Education and Sports, said that it is true that the student support money has been sent to the school since June. The school has transferred the list of pedagogical students receiving tuition support to the bank, but it was returned twice to supplement the documents.
"The first time the bank asked for clarification on why the number of pedagogical students receiving living allowances was lower than initially registered. The second time the bank asked for four different appendices to be created on the list of students forced to drop out of each course, and did not agree to a list of all courses combined. Each time the school had to supplement the records and re-sign the papers, which was very time-consuming," Mr. Thinh explained.
In addition, Mr. Thinh also added that there are many students who are on the third academic warning, forced to leave school. For these students, the school sends a notice and waits for the student to respond with accurate information and if there are any errors. This also takes a lot of time. That is the reason for the delay in payment.
Also related to paying living expenses for pedagogical students, Mr. Thinh affirmed that the school has not yet paid living expenses for students in the second semester of the 2023-2024 school year, including months 1 to 5. The school has completed payments for previous semesters. The total funding for supporting pedagogical students who registered for the policy in the previous semester was about 18 billion VND.
"This is the living allowance for teacher training students according to regulations. The school can only pay the right beneficiaries, and cannot use it for any other purpose. The delay in payment is due to paperwork procedures," said Mr. Thinh.
Many pedagogical students owe living expenses
Decree 116/2020 of the Government on policies to support tuition fees and living expenses for pedagogical students takes effect from November 15, 2020.
Four years have passed, and many pedagogical students enrolled in 2020 have yet to receive their monthly living allowance of VND3.63 million. Meanwhile, pedagogical students at many universities have had their living allowances delayed by 6 months to more than a year.
Most of the schools that are late in paying living allowances are provincial universities. In addition, many large teacher training universities also have this problem.
The debt of living expenses for teacher training students stems from the slow policies of ordering, assigning training tasks, and approving payment budgets by localities.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/7-thang-chua-nhan-duoc-ho-tro-sinh-hoat-phi-cho-sinh-vien-su-pham-2024080513294448.htm
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