Vinh City Kindergartens Return Overdue Collection

(Baonghean.vn) - The People's Committee of Vinh City has just issued a document responding to the press regarding the collection of tuition fees exceeding the regulations of kindergartens in the city at the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year. At the same time, it affirmed that the schools have returned this amount to parents.

Accordingly, after receiving feedback from press agencies about collecting tuition fees on holidays during the school opening period, on November 9, Vinh City People's Committee issued Official Dispatch No. 6844/UBND-GDĐT&KHTC requesting public kindergartens that collect tuition fees for 7 days (from August 23-31, 2017) to collect tuition fees at the rate of 11,000 VND/day for kindergartens in wards, and 9,000 VND/day for kindergartens in communes.

This is the daily tuition fee level issued according to Decision 89/2016 of the Provincial People's Committee regulating tuition fees in public educational and training institutions.

Hung Loc Kindergarten in Vinh City was forced to refund tuition fees to parents of 26,000 VND/day. Photo: PV

In particular, for school days that coincide with Saturdays, the maximum agreed upon fee with parents is no more than 35,000 VND/day. The fee for days off is based on Decision 06/2016/QD.UBND of the province on the Regulation of maximum agreed upon fees for the organization of childcare and nurturing on days off in public kindergartens.

Thus, with this decision, kindergartens in Vinh City that previously collected tuition fees on holidays (35,000 VND/day) during the school opening period (from August 23 to August 31, 2017) are forced to return the overcharged tuition fees to students. In particular, public kindergartens in inner-city areas will have to return 24,000 VND/day and in suburban areas 26,000 VND/day.

According to Vinh City People's Committee, all schools in the area have calculated and refunded to parents the amount of money collected in excess according to regulations.

PV