Proposal to spend about 31.4 trillion VND to exempt and support tuition fees from the 2025-2026 school year

Presenting the report, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said that based on reviewing current regulations, the Resolution added subjects exempted from and supported to pay tuition fees, including: Preschool children under 5 years old studying at educational institutions; high school students, and people studying general education programs at educational institutions.

According to the draft Resolution, the State budget will support tuition fees for preschool children, high school students, and those studying generaleducation programs at private and public educational institutions. The Resolution is expected to be submitted for approval and promulgation at the 9th Session of the 15th National Assembly and the policy will be applied from the 2025-2026 school year.

Assessing the impact on the State budget, Minister Nguyen Kim Son said that according to statistics for the 2023-2024 school year, the country currently has 23.2 million students (including 21.5 million public students, accounting for 93%; 1.7 million non-public students, accounting for 7%).

The total funding requirement calculated based on the average minimum tuition fee of the three regions (urban, rural, mountainous) is about 30.6 trillion VND. Of which, the public sector is 28.7 trillion VND; the private sector is 1.9 trillion VND.

In addition, there is also funding to exempt and support tuition fees for students of general education programs at continuing education institutions and other educational institutions, which is 774.2 billion VND for 431,551 students (all are public students, currently there are no private students).

The specific budget level to be guaranteed will depend on the specific tuition fee level of each province or centrally-run city under the authority of the Provincial People's Council.

Regarding the review agency, Chairman of the National Assembly 's Committee on Culture and Society Nguyen Dac Vinh said that the Committee basically agrees with the policy but recommends that the Government study and regulate the payment of tuition support for this group of subjects by directly providing it to the learners.

Regarding the budget for implementing the Resolution, the examining agency cited the content of the draft Resolution, in which the cost of exempting tuition fees and supporting tuition fees from the 2025-2026 school year for the subjects according to the draft Resolution is estimated at about 31.4 trillion VND/school year.

Currently, the total State budget that has been and will be implementing not collecting, exempting, and supporting tuition fees from September 1, 2025 according to current legal regulations is 22.4 trillion VND.

Thus, the additional amount of State budget that must be guaranteed when implementing the policy according to this Resolution is about 9,000 billion VND/school year. The amount of budget that needs to be guaranteed in each locality depends on the tuition fee regulations decided by the Provincial People's Council.

Therefore, the reviewing agency recommends that the drafting agency carefully assess the budget balancing capacity of localities, especially localities with difficult socio-economic conditions, and at the same time, add the implementation budget for students studying general education programs at continuing education institutions and other educational institutions to the total state budget demand to implement tuition exemption and support from the 2025-2026 school year for the subjects according to the draft Resolution.

The audit agency also proposed that the Government adjust the 2025 budget estimate for tasks arising in 2025 associated with the implementation of this Resolution./.

According to VNA

Source: https://baothanhhoa.vn/de-xuat-chi-khoang-31-4-nghin-ty-dong-mien-ho-tro-hoc-phi-tu-nam-hoc-2025-2026-249579.htm