What are regulations on control of payment of support funding for enhancing competencies of lecturers and administrators of higher education at the State Treasury in Vietnam?

1. What are regulations on control of payment of support funding for enhancing competencies of lecturers and administrators of higher education at the State Treasury in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Clause 1, Article 8 of Circular 30/2022/TT-BTC stipulating regulations on control of payment of support funding for learners at the State Treasury:

a) Dossiers and procedures for control of payment of the funding for domestic and overseas training through the State Treasury: Comply with regulations of Decree No. 11/2020/ND-CP dated January 20, 2020 of the Government on administrative procedures for State Treasury operations (hereinafter referred to as “Decree No. 11/2020/ND-CP").

b) Regulations on control and payment of the funding through the State Treasury: Comply with regulations of Circular No. 62/2020/TT-BTC dated June 22, 2020 of the Ministry of Finance on guidance on control and payment of frequent expenditures from the state budget through the State Treasury and other applicable regulations. In which the expenditure control records for the funding for overseas training shall be made as follows:

The budget using-unit shall make document on request for disbursement of estimated fund according to the total amount in the list of transfer of the funding for training of overseas learners under each country/school, each type of foreign currency or the document on request for disbursement of estimated fund for each learner and submit to the State Treasury enclosed with the documents specified in Article 7 of Decree No. 11/2020/ND-CP.

Dossiers on payment of the funding for training of learners shall contain the following contents: full name of learner; name of the country where the learner is studying; payment details; the amount in foreign currency for each learner; account name of beneficiary (name of the foreign training institution or an individual); account number of the beneficiary; swift code of the bank of the beneficiary or the full name and address of the bank of the beneficiary; intermediary bank (if any); transfer fee and others (if any).

The budget-using units shall be responsible for the legitimacy, validity and accuracy of the contents of the documents on request for disbursement of estimated fund for learners and the dossiers sent to the State Treasury; ensure the correct content and spending norms as prescribed in this Circular.

The State Treasury shall control and carry out procedures to request the bank to transfer money from the payment account of the State Treasury to each beneficiary according to the assigned estimates and the dossiers sent by the units.

Subsistence allowances and health insurance: the learners who attend overseas training programs shall receive travel allowances and subsistence allowances (a maximum period of 3 months) before admission.

2. What is support funding for enhancing competencies of lecturers and administrators of higher education in Vietnam in the period of 2019-2030?

According to Clauses 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7, Article 8 of Circular 30/2022/TT-BTC has the following provisions:

2. The support funding for learners according to the approval decision of the Minister of Education and Training shall be calculated from the dates on which these learners formally enter their courses at receiving institutions or from the dates on which these approval decisions have influence upon doctoral learners; the maximum time limits of funding to doctoral learners and master’s learner shall be 04 years (48 months) and 02 years (24 months), respectively During the period of suspension of study and research, the learners are not entitled to receive the funding of proposal.

3. The funding from state budget according to decision of the Minister of Education and Training shall cease being offered to learners committing breach of laws to the extent of being prosecuted for penal liability, imprisoned or expelled from school due to any breach of regulations of receiving institutions during their study or research period.

4. The learners shall repay all funding for training in case they fail to fulfill their responsibilities specified in Clause 2, Article 6 of Circular No. 25/2021/TT-BGDDT. The repayment shall comply with regulations of the Government’s Decree No. 143/2013/ND-CP dated October 24, 2013 on repayment of scholarships and funding for training of learners who are not officials, public employees, the Government’s Decree No. 101/2017/ND-CP dated September 01, 2017 on training and refresher training of cadres, public officials and public employees for learners who are officials, public employees and applicable regulations.

5. The management and use of the funding for payment for non-public institutions shall comply with regulations of applicable law on the state budget and this Circular. Make payment according to the contract within the scope of estimates approved by the competent authorities.

6. The Ministry of Education and Training shall take charge and cooperate with relevant agencies in supervision and inspection of the management of the funding for the implementation of the proposal, evaluate and summarize the results of the implementation of the proposal in accordance with regulations.

7. The funding for the implementation of the proposal shall be managed, used and settled in conformity with the nature of the funding sources and the corresponding expenditure items of the state budget index, consolidated in the annual reports on settlement of the units that are submitted to the superior management agency for approval and the financial agency for appraisal of the final settlement in accordance with the law on state budget.

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