Many parents in Hanoi are under pressure to increase tuition fees
As a salesman, Tran Trinh’s work for the past 2 years has always been interrupted when the company had to temporarily suspend operations due to the impact of the epidemic. Recently, his income has stabilized temporarily, but now he has to face the worry of not being able to pay for expenses if his children’s school fees increase.
When her mother died early, Nhu Quynh had to rely on her grandparents. The family’s income only depends on her vegetables and beans. If tuition fees will increase, that meager capital income will be more difficult to manage for the whole family.
“Farmers don’t have any, if compared to other people, it’s a burden. I’m a grandfather, a grandmother, a mother and a father, so I have to take care of my children’s education, if not, I have to borrow money” – Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dung – student’s parent To share.
Although there is no official announcement, the information Hanoi expected tuition increase was mentioned by many parents in the year-end meeting at Ba Trai Secondary School. Many parents could not hide their emotions when listening to the family’s share of difficulties during the past time.
As a commune in the mountainous area of Ba Vi district, the tuition fees applied to students at Ba Trai Secondary School are currently much lower than those in urban districts. Currently, the number of poor households in the commune has decreased, but the near-poor households are still high and the income source is not stable.
Ms. Phan Thi Doan Trang, Principal of Ba Trai Secondary School, Ba Vi district, Hanoi said: “Now that the school year is over, we still have a few more students who have not yet collected tuition fees, as small as So, we’re keeping it the same but we can’t collect tuition fees, so we hope to keep the old rate.”
A representative of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training explained that the new draft of the city’s tuition fees is built according to the Government’s fee framework in Decree 81/2021. Hanoi is expected to apply the lowest level in the tuition fee bracket set by the Government for all regions and levels of education, and then increase it further in the following years.
At the year-end parent meeting at many schools in Hanoi, the homeroom teachers still have to do the cashier job. Tuition fees, learning materials and other contributions, in order to get enough, get early is always a difficult problem for schools.
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