Statistics showed that 98.38 percent of preschoolers attended school in the
period, 3.38 percent higher than the required standard. Meanwhile, 99 percent of
five-year-olds completed preschool education, 14 percent above requirements.
All communes and wards across 11 districts and towns of Binh Phuoc, which
previously lacked schools and teachers, now have educational institutions and
pre-schools.
Representatives from the ministry suggested local authorities improve the
quality of the work and invest in building infrastructure facilities for
pre-school education, encourage private involvement and revamp management in the
field.
In recent years, the provincial Steering Committee for illiteracy elimination
and education universalisation has focused on children at the age of five,
especially those from low-income households, disadvantaged, remote and border
areas and those from ethnic minorities.
However, Vice Chairman of the peovincial People’s Committee Nguyen Tien Dung
pointed out difficulties facing the locality in generalising education for
five-year-olds including overloading at preschools and in encouraging children
to attend school.
He said relevant sectors, especially the education and training sector, need to
raise public awareness of the scheme, make it easy for enterprises to invest in
private preschool development and improve the quality of teachers.
The project on universalising pre-school education for five-year-old children
was approved in 2010.
The project set the goal of having the majority of five-year-old children
throughout the country attend two classes a day for a full school-year in order
to be fully prepared for the first grade.
VNA