Vietnam’s regulations on policy scholarship for students and learners

According to Decree No. 84/2020/NĐ-CP Vietnam’s Government, 03 entities eligible for policy scholarship include:

1. Students enrolled by form of nomination.

2. Students at pre-university schools, boarding general education schools for ethnic minorities.

3. Learners at institutions for vocational education for war invalids, disabled and handicapped persons.

Principles of receiving scholarships are specified in Decree No. 84/2020/NĐ-CP as follows:

- Eligible entities 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 a training program of a specific major as per the law. In the final year, students and learners shall benefit according to the 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.

- 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.

Regarding the level of policy scholarships for each entity:

- In case of students enrolled by form of nomination, students at pre-university schools, boarding general education schools for ethnic minorities, learners at institutions for vocational education for war invalids, disabled and handicapped persons: Scholarships shall equal 80% of statutory pay rate/month;

- In case of students who are war invalids living in poor households and studying in institutions for vocational education for war invalids, disabled and handicapped persons: Scholarships shall equal 100% of statutory pay rate/month.

Besides, policy scholarships 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.

View more details at Decree No. 84/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from September 01, 2020.

Ty Na

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