THE PRIME MINISTER
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No. 239/QD-TTg
Hanoi, February 09, 2010
 
DECISION
APPROVING THE SCHEME ON UNIVERSAL PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN AGED FIVE YEARS IN THE 2010-2015 PERIOD
 
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the June 15, 2004 Law on Child Protection, Care and Education;
Pursuant to the June 14, 2005 Law on Education;
Pursuant to the June 19, 2009 Resolution No. 35/2009/QH12 of the XIIth National Assembly, on policies and orientations for renewal of a number of financial mechanisms applicable to education and training from the 2010-2011 school year to the 2014-2015 school year;
At the proposal of the Minister of Education and Training,
DECIDES:
Article 1. To approve the Scheme on universal pre-school education for children aged five years in the 2010-2015 period with the following principal contents:
I. VIEWPOINTS
1. The State shall manage and invest in preschool education development, increasing supports in material foundations and teacher training: prioritize investment in regions meeting with exceptional socio-economic difficulties, mountainous, deep-lying, remote, island and border regions in the direction of building solid public schools up to standards.
2. The universalization of preschool education for children aged five years is a task of first priority in preschool education, aiming to make best preparations for children to enter grade 1 for all regions nationwide.
3. The responsibility to let all children aged five years go to pre-school institutions ans classes rests with administrations at all levels, sectors, families and the entire society. To step up the socialization with greater responsibility of the State, the society and families for the development of preschool education.
4. To renew the preschool education curriculum and methodology on the principle of ensuring the synchronism, conformity and advance in association with the renewal of general education, positively contributing to raising education quality.
II. OBJECTIVES
1. General objectives
To ensure that all children aged five years in all regions are sent to school for full-day education (two sessions/day) within a schoolyear with a view to making good physical, intellectual, sentimental, aesthetical. lingual and psychological preparations for their entrance into grade 1 with good quality.
2. Specific objectives:
a/ To consolidate and expand the network of schools and classes, ensuring that by 2015, 95% of children aged five years enjoy full-day schooling;