What is the period of tuition and living allowance support for pedagogy students in Vietnam?

What is the period of tuition and living allowance support for pedagogy students in Vietnam?

Under Article 4 of Decree 116/2020/ND-CP:

Support amount and support period

1. Support or allowance amount:

a) Pedagogy students shall be entitled to the state-funded tuition support which is equal to tuitions charged by teacher training institutions where they are taking training programs;

b) Pedagogy students shall be entitled to 3.63 million dong each month as an allowance or stipend offsetting their living expenses while studying at teacher training institutions.

2. The validity period of tuition and living allowance support or stipends shall be determined in proportion to the actual number of academic months as prescribed, but not exceeding 10 months/academic year. If any teacher training institution provides academic programs according to the credit system, they may convert support amounts to adapt to the credit system. Total financial support in the whole training course provided according to the credit system shall not exceed the specified support amount applied to a course in each academic year.

Thus, the period of tuition support for pedagogy students in Vietnam is the actual number of months studied at the school, but not exceeding 10 months per academic year.

Note: If any teacher training institution provides academic programs according to the credit system, they may convert support amounts to adapt to the credit system. Total financial support in the whole training course provided according to the credit system shall not exceed the specified support amount applied to a course in each academic year.

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What are the procedures for providing tuition and living allowance support in Vietnam?

According to Article 7 of Decree 116/2020/ND-CP, the procedures for providing tuition and living allowance support in Vietnam are as follows:

- Every year, based on the student intakes announced by the Ministry of Education and Training, teacher training institutions must inform candidates who have been admitted to teacher training disciplines in order for them to apply for support policies, based on their eligibility for commissioning, ordering or procurement policies or training programs tailor-made to social needs, provided that they fall within the student intakes notified by the Ministry of Education and Training.

- Within 30 days of receipt of notices of admission, pedagogy students shall submit applications for entitlement to support policies and commitments to refunding tuition support and living allowances or stipends to teacher training institutions (Form No. 01 in the Appendix issued together with this Decree), directly or by post or online (if any).

Students only submit 01 set of documents for the first time to apply for support policies during the period of their study at teacher training institutions.

- Teacher training institutions shall collect these applications and notify commissioning, ordering or procuring localities to reach agreement on support for pedagogy students who are eligible for commissioning, ordering or procurement policies.

- Commissioning, ordering or procuring bodies shall develop criteria for selection of pedagogy students granted admission, cooperating with teacher training institutions to ensure fairness, public disclosure and transparency.

- Within 15 days from submission deadlines, teacher training institutions must reach agreement with commissioning, ordering or procuring bodies to confirm and notify pedagogy students entitled to support policies if they are eligible to become beneficiaries of commissioning, ordering or procuring programs, and consider granting approval to pedagogy students entitled to support policies if they are eligible to become beneficiaries of support policies applied to those falling within the intakes announced by the Ministry of Education and Training, and do not fall within the intake of students selected by the ordering method.

- The list of pedagogy students entitled to tuition support and living allowances or stipends shall be publicly posted on the web portals of teacher training institutions and concurrently sending it to commissioning, ordering or procuring bodies for further actions.

What are the cases where pedagogy students in Vietnam are required to reimburse financial support?

According to Clause 1, Article 6 of Decree 116/2020/ND-CP, pedagogy students must reimburse financial support in the following cases:

- Pedagogy students already receiving financial support policies have not served in the education sector for 2 years of receipt of graduation decisions;

- Pedagogy students already receiving financial support policies and serving in the education sector fail to meet the seniority requirement prescribed in point a of clause 2 of this Article;

- Pedagogy students receiving financial support policies change their field of study during their course period, drop out of school, fail to complete the training programs or are disciplined in the form of expulsion.