Gov’t looks to universal pre-school education in 2015
VGP – The Government wants to give top priority to the universalization of pre-school education in order to make best preparations for five-year-old children to enter the elementary schools.
The
Government chief lately turned on the green light to the Project on Universalizing
Pre-school Education for Five-Year-Old Children in the period of
2010-2015.
Pre-school
education reflects national achievements in education and care for children –
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Underlining
responsibilities of the State, society and families for the development of
pre-school education, the project sets the overall goal of ensuring that the
majority of five-year-old children throughout the country can attend two
classes a day for a full school-year.
The
move aims at preparing physical, intelligent, mental, aesthetic and linguistic
conditions for kids to enter elementary schools.
As
planned, the Government will upgrade facilities and improve quality of nursery education;
and reduce malnutrition rates. By 2015, 100% of five-year-old children will
enroll in the pre-school education program.
Specially,
the project will be prioritized in mountainous and remote areas. National-standardized
nursery schools will be built in poor districts. And the rates of provinces meeting
the criteria of universal pre-school education will be raised from 55% in 2010
to 85% in 2012 and 100% in 2015.
The
project will be carried out in two periods of 2010-2012 and 2013-2015 with the
total investment of VND 14,660 billion.
Through
its four component projects, the project will help build 11,600 classrooms;
purchase toys and educational equipment; train teachers, and churn out 86 national-standard
pre-schools in 86 disadvantageous and poor districts nationwide.