The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has just issued a document consolidating the Circular regulating tutoring and extra classes.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Education and Training requires not to organize tutoring for elementary school students, except for cases: Training in arts, sports, life skills training.
Teachers who are teaching at schools are not allowed to teach extra classes outside the school for students who are being assigned by the school to teach according to the school's education plan.
Teachers of public schools are not allowed to participate in managing and operating extra classes outside the school but can participate in extra classes outside the school.
Conditions for tutoring and extra classes in schools
The consolidated document stipulates that tutoring and extra classes in schools are not charged to students and are only for students who register for extra classes according to each subject as follows:
Students with unqualified academic results in the last subject of the immediately preceding semester;
Students are selected by the school to foster excellent students;
End-of-grade students voluntarily register for entrance exam preparation and graduation exam preparation according to the school's education plan.
The school organizes for students who are subject to the provisions of Clause 1 of this Article to write applications for extra classes according to each subject in each grade level (according to Form No. 01 in the Appendix attached to this Circular).
Based on the number of registered students, the school develops a plan to organize extra classes for each subject in each grade level.
Each class does not have more than 45 students
Class arrangement, timetable arrangement and organization of extra classes must ensure the following requirements:
Tutoring classes are arranged by subject for each grade level; each class has no more than 45 (fourty-five) students;
Do not arrange extra classes alternately with the timetable and do not tutor contents in advance compared to teaching according to the subject program distribution in the school's education plan;
Each subject is organized for extra classes no more than 2 (two) periods/week.
In case students who are eligible to register for extra classes according to regulations have extra learning needs exceeding 2 (two) periods/week, the Director of the Department of Education and Training shall consider and decide to allow adjustment of the time for organizing extra classes at the request of the Principal or Director or head of the school.
The Ministry of Education and Training also requires that the plan to organize extra classes and tutoring be publicized on the school's electronic information page or posted at the school.
In case of violations of tutoring and extra classes, the document clearly stipulates the handling direction as follows:
Schools, tutoring establishments, organizations, and individuals who violate regulations on tutoring and extra classes, depending on the nature and severity of the violation, will be handled according to the provisions of law.
Heads of agencies, organizations, and units with cadres, civil servants, and public employees who violate regulations on tutoring and extra classes, depending on the nature and severity of the violation, will be handled according to the provisions of law.
