The Ministry of Education and Training proposed to immediately implement the exemption of tuition fees for all secondary school students from the school year 2022 – 2023.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has just gathered ideas for the final draft of the new decree regarding the mechanism for collecting tuition fees applicable to educational institutions in the national education system.

Universities have developed a variety of assistance programmes to help students access higher education, including loans, scholarships, housing and food aid.

Deputy education minister Nguyen Huu Do talks on waiving tuition fees and textbook selection issues in the 2019 Law on Education.

The HCM City Department of Education and Training has told private schools to negotiate with students’ parents the tuition fees they need to pay for the closure period following complaints that many schools are demanding unreasonable amounts.

Ha Noi’s People’s Council has approved a resolution to raise tuition fees at some public schools in the academic year 2019-20.

Nguyen Thi Kim Phung, director general of the Department of Tertiary Education, Ministry of Education and Training, talks to Nhân Dân (People) newspaper on the areas that universities and other education institutions should be given autonomy.

Although hundreds of thousands of university graduates fail to secure jobs, students and their families still hope to attend university at any cost—leaving vocational schools struggling to attract enough students to operate.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Whenever a new year approaches, low-income workers start to fret about finding schools, tuition fees, and arranging to drop off and collect their children at school.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It was around 8pm and the lights inside the classrooms of the University of Architecture were still on.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has requested that tuition fees at all education levels should be made public.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue yesterday said poverty reduction policies should not be too excessive because that would eliminate people’s motivation to improve their lives.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two high-quality universities: The University of Science and Technology of Hanoi and Vietnam-Germany University, may be permitted to charge tuition fees of USD5,000 per year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s plan to pilot 18 high-quality public schools would help significantly improve education quality and teachers’ incomes, one education expert has said.

The establishment of high quality schools has been approved by the Hanoi People’s Council. The existence of the schools, which set high tuitions, called the schools for the rich, has raised controversy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Several more colleges and universities across Vietnam have been recently fined for failing to comply with regulations on joint training programmes.