Many different price levels
Not only concerned about how to choose teaching units, a question readers are interested in is how the current prices of liên kết subjects are regulated?
According to a survey by Lao Dong Newspaper, currently the fee level for linked education has many different prices.
At Nguyen Du Secondary School, Soc Son commune, in the 2025-2026 school year, the English program with foreigners collects 50,000 VND/student/period; life skills subject collects 15,000 VND/student/period.
Regarding the tuition fee that Oxbridge Education Group is collecting at Ha Yen Quyet Secondary School, the school principal said that the price is being collected from 45,000 VND/session.
At Viet Hung Primary School, in the December 2025 fee collection period, bilingual English is 440,000 VND/month, foreign English is 260,000 VND/month, life skills is 60,000 VND/month.
Quan Hoa Primary School publicly announced that in the 2025-2026 school year, the English language introduction and support program Language Link is 641,700 VND/month.
Meanwhile, also in the 2025-2026 school year, Gia Thuong Primary School, Bo De ward publicly announced the tuition fee of Language Link itself at 670,000 VND/student/month (6,000,000 VND/student/school year/65 lessons in 9 months, equivalent to about 92,300 VND/lesson).
For the life skills subject of the same unit, Thien Tuong Limited Liability Company, there is also a difference.
At Viet Hung Primary School, the fee is 60,000 VND/month (equivalent to about 15,000 VND/period).
If the school directly teaches extracurricular hours, the fee is no more than 15,000 VND/time.
To clarify information about the current regulations on tuition fees for affiliated subjects, reporters contacted the Hanoi Department of Education and Training from March 10th. However, the Department of Education and Training has not yet responded.
It is known that on November 27, 2025, the Hanoi City People's Council issued Resolution No. 60/2025/NQ-HĐND on stipulating the list of fees and collection levels, and the management mechanism for revenue and expenditure for services serving and supporting education and training activities for public preschool, general education, and continuing education institutions (excluding high-quality public education institutions) of Hanoi city. Previously, Resolution No. 03/2024/NQ-HĐND.
According to the list of fees and collection levels for services serving and supporting education and training activities for preschool education institutions, general education, life skills education services, extracurricular education activities (directly implemented by public educational institutions), the maximum price is stipulated at 15,000 VND/session.
The Resolution also stipulates a management mechanism for revenue and expenditure for services serving and supporting education and training activities.
Accordingly, educational institutions are autonomous in deciding on expenditures to provide services to serve and support education and training activities, ensuring rationality, validity and in accordance with regulations in the internal spending regulations of the unit; organizing accounting work in accordance with the law; opening accounting books, managing documents, accounting, and separate monitoring to ensure full and accurate recognition of revenue and cost allocation for each activity; registering, declaring, and paying sufficient taxes and other budget revenues (if any) in accordance with the law; implementing the financial reporting regime correctly and promptly with higher management agencies and relevant agencies as prescribed.
In case services serving and supporting education and training activities have revenue differences (including revenue from learners and other legal revenue sources as prescribed) smaller than expenses, the unit must calculate to compensate for the shortfall with legal funds of the unit, which the state budget does not subsidize.
Educational institutions publicly disclose the collection and spending of service fees to serve and support educational and training activities according to regulations.
Organize collection of services to serve and support education and training activities
Based on the ceiling level in the Resolution, educational institutions develop cost estimates to determine specific collection levels, agreed in writing with parents on a voluntary basis, with the consensus of the School Board of Directors, the Board of Directors of the Vocational Education - Continuing Education Center and higher management agencies (People's Committees of wards, communes or Departments of Education and Training according to management decentralization) before promulgation, ensuring not exceeding the prescribed ceiling level.
Educational institutions are responsible for organizing the collection of service fees to serve and support educational and training activities for management and use according to regulations; returning money collection vouchers to learners according to regulations; having appropriate exemption and reduction regimes for students who are policy beneficiaries or have difficult circumstances.
However, as recorded by Lao Dong, many schools today often link with external units and collect higher linked teaching prices.
