How many types of State scholarships are there for students? What is the application for students enrolled by form of nomination to receive policy scholarships in Vietnam?
Vietnam: What is a policy scholarship? How many types of state scholarships are there for students?
Pursuant to Chapter IV of Decree 84/2020/ND-CP, it is clearly stated that 02 scholarship programs are being implemented by the State, which are academic incentive scholarships and policy scholarships. Accordingly:
- Academic incentive scholarships are incentive scholarships for students with excellent academic and training achievements each semester.
- Policy scholarships are scholarships for students under the recruitment regime; students at pre-university schools, boarding schools for ethnic minorities; students at vocational training institutions for war invalids and people with disabilities.
Thus, there are 02 types of scholarships that the State is implementing, namely academic encouragement scholarships and policy scholarships. And policy scholarships are scholarships for students under the mode of election, pre-university, vocational education institutions,...
What are the principles to enjoy the policy scholarships in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Clause 3, Article 9 of Decree 84/2020/ND-CP stipulating the principles of enjoying policy scholarships as follows:
- Entities specified under Clause 1 of this Article shall receive policy scholarship once throughout their learning process;
- In case a student or learner is eligible for multiple policies simultaneously, the policy with the highest scholarship shall prevail; in case a student or learner studies multiple majors in multiple education institutions, he/she shall only benefit from a single major at a single education institution;
- Students and learners eligible for policy scholarships as specified under this Article and eligible for other incentive policies, social benefits and academic incentive scholarships may benefit from such policies as per the law;
- Students and learners disciplined in form of expulsion or suspension shall not benefit from policies specified under this Article from the date on which decisions on discipline enters into force or during suspension period;
- Policy scholarships shall be awarded every month, number of school years in which a student or learner benefits from the policy must not exceed the maximum number of school years or semesters necessary for completing training program of a specific major as per the law. In the final year, students and learners shall benefit according to number of months that they have studied.
In case of students in pre-university schools and boarding general education schools for ethnic minorities repeat classes, the first repeated school year is still eligible for benefiting from policy scholarship as per the law.
- In case of training program in form of modules or credits, policy scholarships shall be awarded depending on training period, equal or less than training period of year-based training program for the same major and education level and calculated using formula as regulated in Point e, Clause 3, Article 9 of Decree 84/2020/ND-CP
- Policy scholarship shall not be applied to students pursuing second degree, university-enterprise cooperative training programs, distance learning programs, university-university cooperative training programs or on-the-job training programs.
How many types of State scholarships are there for students? What is the application for students enrolled by form of nomination to receive policy scholarships in Vietnam? (Internet picture)
What is the application for students enrolled by form of nomination to receive policy scholarships in Vietnam?
* Dossier for benefits: Point a, Clause 4, Article 9 of Decree 84/2020/ND-CP
In case of students enrolled by form of nomination: Written commitment of students with confirmation of schools where the students are currently studying (Form No. 1 under Annex attached to this Decree);
*Sequence of considering and granting scholarships to students according to the election regime: point a, clause 5, Article 9 of Decree 84/2020/ND-CP
Step 1: Submit application:
- Within 15 days from the date on which a school year starts, students shall submit application in person, via postal service or online to Departments of Home Affairs where permanent residence is registered in case of students in institutions for higher education and pedagogical colleges or Departments of Labors - War Invalids and Social Affairs where permanent residence is registered in case of students in colleges except for students in pedagogical colleges.
+ Each student shall submit the application once throughout his/her time studying at an education institution;
Step 2: Departments of Home Affairs, Departments of Labor – War Invalids and Social Affairs shall:
+ Receive the applications, appraise, list and estimate required expenditure (Form No. 4 under Annex attached to this Decree)
+ Pay for policy scholarships as per the law.
Step 3: In case of inadequate application, Departments of Home Affairs, Departments of Labor – War Invalids and Social Affairs are responsible for informing the applicants within 7 working days from the date on which the application is received;
Step 4: Students shall receive policy scholarship directly at Departments of Home Affairs, Departments of Labor – War Invalids and Social Affairs or their bank accounts.
* Method of payment of policy scholarships for students enrolled in form of nomination: Clause 7 Article 9 of Decree 84/2020/ND-CP
+ Transfer expenditure directly to education institutions according to contracts, pay cash directly to families of learners or the learners,
+ Transfer to the learners via accounts or other legal forms of money transfer (if any).
* Period of awarding policy scholarship: Clause 8, Article 9 of Decree 84/2020/ND-CP
+ Policy scholarship shall be awarded twice every school year, each policy scholarship shall be awarded for 6 months with the first in October and the second in March.
+ In case students and learners have not received policy scholarships in the period above, they shall receive their share in the next period.
Note: Students enrolled in form of nomination who are expelled from schools either voluntarily or by expulsion discipline must return all policy scholarships that they have received to agencies awarding scholarship, except for cases of expulsion due to force majeure.(Clause 9 Article 9 of Decree 84/2020/ND-CP)
Thus, students enrolled in form of nomination who are expelled from schools either voluntarily or by expulsion discipline must return all policy scholarships that they have received to agencies awarding scholarship, except for cases of expulsion due to force majeure.
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