Ho Chi Minh City announces public school revenues for the 2025-2026 school year

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training has just announced the fees in public schools for the 2025-2026 school year for each level.

Ho Chi Minh City students on the first day of school for the new school year 2025-2026. This year, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training clearly stipulates the fees collected at the beginning of the year - Photo: THANH HIEP

The document guiding the collection and use of tuition fees and other fees in public schools for the 2025-2026 school year of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training said that in the 2025-2026 school year, students from kindergarten to high school will be exempted from tuition fees according to Resolution No. 217 of the National Assembly .

In addition, the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City has also announced the list of other service fees at each level of education as follows:

See preschool service fees here.

Primary school service fees can be found here.

See service fees for middle and high school here.

Regular education service fees can be viewed here.

Accordingly, the department stipulates that service fees for individual students must be consistent with local realities. If there is an increase compared to the previous year, the school must explain, be transparent and have the consent of the students' parents.

The school invites parents to participate in monitoring and supervision to have a basis for appropriate adjustments.

"All collections must be fully and publicly announced in writing to parents, students, and pupils by the units. The school's finance department collects money, issues receipts, and invoices for each student, does not assign teachers to directly collect and spend money, and at the same time fully implements financial management regimes.

For educational institutions, the use of revenues must be for the right purposes, the revenue and expenditure plans of each revenue item must be made public to parents before implementation, and financial management regimes must be fully implemented according to regulations," the document stated.

Check the income and expenditure situation at the beginning of the school year

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training said it will establish inspection teams to inspect the revenue and expenditure situation at the beginning of the school year at public schools, promptly correcting the situation of collecting illegal fees;

Inspect the guidance on revenue and expenditure at the beginning of the school year of the People's Committees of wards, communes and special zones according to regulations on decentralization, delegation and assignment of authority to perform state management tasks of local authorities at 2 levels in the field of education.

In which, the People's Committees of wards, communes and special zones shall base on the operational plan, revenue and expenditure estimates and proposed collection levels of each educational institution to consider service fees other than tuition fees; Agree on a collection level framework suitable to the actual situation of each locality (not equalizing collection levels) before organizing implementation;

Control not to generate any revenue outside of regulations; responsible for guiding schools to organize to get consensus from parents of students for implementation.

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HOANG HUONG

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/tp-hcm-cong-bo-cac-khoan-thu-truong-cong-lap-nam-hoc-2025-2026-20250830203256416.htm