Decree 86: Summary of 15 entities eligible for tuition fee exemption in Vietnam

According to the Decree No. 86/2015/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, learners eligible for tuition fee exemption include:

- The people with meritorious services to the Resolution and their family prescribed in the Ordinance on People with meritorious services to the Revolution No. 26/2005/PL-UBTVQH11 dated June 29, 2005, Ordinance No. 04/2012/UBTVQH13 dated July 16, 2012 on amendments to the Ordinance on People with meritorious services to the Revolution.

- The children studying in preschools and students who are disabled and encounter financial difficulties.

- The children studying in preschools and students under 16 years of age prescribed in Clause 1 Article 5 of Decree No. 136/2013/ND-CP dated October 21, 2013 of the Government on  social protection beneficiaries. The learners aged between 16 and 22 who are subject to cases prescribed in Clause 1 Article 5 of Decree No. 136/2013/ND-CP dated October 21, 2013 of the Government on social protection beneficiaries and studying in compulsory schools, vocational schools, junior colleges, colleges, and university as the first degree.

- The students who are studying in preschools, compulsory schools and have parents living in poor households as prescribed by the Prime Minister.

- The students who are studying in preschools, compulsory schools and have parents who are non-commissioned officers and soldiers serving in a given term in People’s armed forces.

- The students who are granted direct admission (including students in vocational boarding schools with training duration of at least 3 months).

- The students of upper-secondary ethnic boarding schools, preparatory senior colleges, and preparatory faculties.

- The students being ethnics in poor households and near poor households prescribed by the Prime Minister who are studying in vocational institutions and higher education institutions.

- The students studying in Marxism - Leninism and Ho Chi Minh ’s Ideology.

- The students and postgraduate students studying in the following disciplines: Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Psychiatry, Forensic Examination, Forensic Psychiatric and Pathology.

- The students being ethnics in disadvantaged areas or severely disadvantaged areas as prescribed by competent authority.

- The students studying in colleges, universities and postgraduate students  in atomic energy field.

- The lower secondary school’s graduates who are moving to vocational secondary schools.

- The learners studying in vocational secondary schools or colleges in conformity with the social demand as mentioned in the list prescribed in the Head of vocational education authority in the central government despite its low enrolment.

- The learners studying particular disciplines in conformity with requirements for socio-economic development and national defense and security as prescribed in the Law on vocational education.

Besides, entities not liable to tuition fees in public educational institutions include: elementary students; pedagogy students; learners of particular disciplines satisfying requirements for socio-economic development, national defense and security as prescribed in the Law on higher education of Vietnam.

View more details at Decree No. 86/2015/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from December 01, 2015.

Thu Ba

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