Thinking about tuition fees

For example, the United Nations International School - UNIS, announced that the tuition fee for the 2024 - 2025 school year is 12,570 USD (more than 310 million VND) applied when paying in one lump sum for kindergarten classes where children study at school until 14:00. For 5-year-old classes, the tuition fee increased by nearly 24 million VND. The highest level is for grades 11 - 12 with 36,920 USD (more than 912 million VND) if paid in one lump sum.

British International School - BIS Hanoi determines tuition fees based on the grade level and date of birth of the student. Accordingly, for preschool level, tuition fees for the entire school year range from 234.4 - 246.3 million VND (for half-day classes) and from 317.2 - 472.2 million VND (for full-day classes). Tuition fees for primary level range from 607.9 - 679.1 million VND. Tuition fees for secondary level range from 782.8 - 896.9 million VND. Tuition fees for Singapore International School, Japanese International School and French International School range from 100 - 150 million VND.

In addition, schools such as Wellspring Bilingual School have tuition fees of about 169.2 million VND/year; Olympia Bilingual School has tuition fees of 167 million VND for the bilingual program...

Currently, Hanoi has 40 foreign-invested schools, mainly kindergartens. All schools teach foreign curricula in English, and are often called "international schools". In addition to tuition fees, many schools have separate regulations on deposits, registration, admission or enrollment fees. The common deposit is about 20 - 35 million VND, the highest is Hanoi International School - HIS 50 million VND. Regarding admission/registration/enrollment fees, the lowest is Singapore International School (3 - 6 million VND), while British International School - BIS Hanoi charges 71 million VND. Other fees that parents must pay include uniforms, meals, facilities, learning materials, and shuttle buses.

Previously, in order to prepare well for the enrollment work at the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training requested units and schools in the city to urgently review and prepare well the conditions to increase the application of information technology and apply online enrollment. For private schools and schools with foreign elements, it is necessary to organize convenient and transparent enrollment, ending the situation of parents lining up to submit applications. The Hanoi Department of Education and Training will resolutely not assign quotas to violating units...

Currently, the trend of sending children to private schools of Hanoi parents is increasing. However, the issue of tuition fees is still a barrier that makes many parents and students hesitant. Besides many schools with high fees as mentioned above, there are still private schools with moderate fees according to the conditions of students. Therefore, according to education experts, students and parents need to consider the conditions to register and enter the appropriate educational environment.

In fact, the race for primary school admission in Hanoi and other big cities is always "hot", because one of the reasons why many families want to send their children to public schools is the low tuition fees, if they go to private schools, not all families are financially ready to meet the demand. Private high schools have to "stand on their own" and face many difficulties. Therefore, representatives of non-public schools all share the same wish that if there is a good mechanism to establish more private schools, sharing the burden of overload with the education sector; along with that, there are preferential policies to help reduce tuition fees, then the story of competing for places in public schools in big cities will gradually decrease.

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