The Hanoi People's Council is seeking comments on a draft Resolution regulating tuition fees for public preschool and general education institutions (PTCL) that cover their regular expenses; high-quality preschool and general education institutions in the area for the 2024-2025 school year.

Accordingly, 24 high-quality, self-financed public schools are expected to collect tuition fees from 300,000 - 6,570,000 VND/month.

According to the draft, the regulation applies tuition fees for in-person and online learning for preschools and primary schools in case of natural disasters, epidemics, and force majeure events. The tuition fee for online learning is 75% of the tuition fee for in-person learning of public educational institutions. If in-person and online learning are in the same month, and the learning method is more than 14 days, the tuition fee is collected in that form. The total tuition fee collection period must not exceed 9 months/school year. The current tuition fee ceiling for high-quality public schools is 5.1 - 6.1 million VND/month. Schools develop and propose tuition fees and submit them to the People's Council for approval. Self-financed schools are allowed to collect double the tuition fee ceiling according to Decree 81 of 2021 of the Government, equivalent to 600,000 - 1,300,000 VND/month. If they pass quality accreditation, schools can determine their own tuition fees.

In Khanh Hoa, Mr. Vo Hoan Hai, Director of the Department of Education and Training, said that in the 2024-2025 school year, the province will not increase tuition fees according to the roadmap of Decree 81/2021. Accordingly, the People's Council of Khanh Hoa province has passed a Resolution amending and supplementing Resolution 13/2022 to have the tuition fee collection level for the 2024-2026 period equal to the tuition fee collection level for the 2021-2022 school year; not increasing according to the roadmap set out in Decree 81/2021.

Specifically, the tuition fees for direct learning for preschool and primary education institutions that have not yet covered their regular expenses from the 2024-2025 school year in urban, rural, ethnic minority and mountainous areas (for each student/month) are respectively VND 140,000, VND 45,000, VND 30,000 at preschool level; VND 60,000, VND 35,000, VND 25,000 at secondary school level; VND 70,000, VND 45,000, VND 30,000 at high school and continuing education levels. This fee will remain stable until the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Therefore, the tuition fee from the 2024-2025 school year to the 2025-2026 school year in Khanh Hoa is revised to the 2021-2022 school year tuition fee according to the principle of sharing between the state and learners.

Can Tho City People's Council has also just passed Resolution 01/2024/NQ-HDND "Regulations on tuition fees for preschool and primary education institutions from the 2023-2024 school year". According to Director of the Department of Education and Training of Can Tho City Tran Thanh Binh, this is a lower tuition fee than Resolution 10/2023/NQ-HDND (total tuition revenue of more than 318 billion VND).

Vice Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee Nguyen Thuc Hien also signed and issued an official dispatch on the implementation of Resolution 01. In the district, the tuition fee for preschool education is 71,000 VND/month/student; for secondary education it is 65,000 VND, and for high school it is 75,000 VND. In the district, the tuition fees for each level are 32,000 VND, 33,000 VND, and 43,000 VND/month/student, respectively. The subjects of application are preschool and vocational education institutions that have not ensured regular expenditures under the management authority of the city. Primary school students in public schools do not pay tuition. This new tuition fee is lower than the tuition fee previously issued under Resolution 10/2023 (tuition fee from 50,000 - 300,000 VND/month/student).

Meanwhile, the Da Nang People's Council has passed a resolution to support tuition fees for the 2024-2025 school year. Accordingly, preschool children, high school and non-public students, including students at continuing education centers following the general education program, will be supported 100% of tuition fees for up to 9 months of the school year. This policy does not apply to preschool children and students at foreign-invested educational institutions. Subjects eligible for tuition fee reduction according to central and Da Nang policies will be compensated with 100% of the tuition fees for preschool and high school education. The expected support budget is more than 108 billion VND from the city budget.