Proposal to exempt secondary school tuition fees from 2020

Minister Phung Xuan Nha said that at a Government meeting last week, the Ministry of Education and Training proposed exempting tuition fees for junior high school students from 2020.

"However, this is a long-term issue, so the Prime Minister has assigned the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Finance to continue researching it," Mr. Nha informed.

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Along with this proposal, last week, the Ministry of Education and Training also proposed to the Prime Minister to exempt tuition fees for preschool education for 5-year-old children in areas with especially difficult socio-economic conditions from the 2018 school year, not until the 2019 school year.

"The government has agreed to approve this policy. That means that from the 2018 school year, preschool education for 5-year-old children in disadvantaged areas will be tuition-free, not just for ethnic minorities as before," said Mr. Nha.

According to Mr. Nha, these policies demonstrate the special attention and care of the Party, State and Government for public general education, especially in disadvantaged areas.

Previously, in the announcement of the Government's regular meeting in May, it was said that reforming the tuition fee regime at the general education level and continuing to extend policies for developing education and vocational training in the Mekong Delta were among the contents discussed by Government members at the meeting.

Accordingly, after discussing the reform of the general tuition regime, the Government has approved a policy of exempting tuition fees for preschool education for 5-year-old children in areas with especially difficult socio-economic conditions from the 2018 school year.

In addition, the Government also agreed to extend the implementation of the policy stipulated in Decision No. 1033 dated June 30, 2011 on the development of education, training and vocational training in the Mekong Delta region for the period 2011 - 2015 and Decision No. 1951 dated November 2, 2011 of the Prime Minister on the development of education, training and vocational training in the Mekong Delta region, the Central Highlands provinces and mountainous districts of the provinces bordering the Central Highlands for the period 2011 - 2015 to December 31, 2020.

According to VNN