Strengthening universal preschool education

The Government has just issued Decree No. 277/2025/ND-CP, detailing the implementation of Resolution No. 218/2025/QH15 dated June 26, 2025 of the National Assembly on universal preschool education for children from 3 to 5 years old.

Universalizing preschool education clearly demonstrates social security and equity policies. (Photo: nhandan.vn)

The Decree consists of 5 chapters and 29 articles detailing the implementation of Resolution No. 218/2025/QH15 dated June 26, 2025 of the National Assembly on universalizing preschool education for children from 3 to 5 years old, including: investment in developing a network of schools, classes, facilities, teaching equipment, utensils, and toys; policies on staff development and child support; roadmap for achieving standards, recognition standards, facilities, teaching equipment, utensils, toys, and processes and procedures for inspecting and recognizing universal preschool education for children from 3 to 5 years old.

According to this Decree, by 2028, 50% or more of provinces and centrally run cities will meet the standards for universal preschool education for children aged 3 to 5. By 2030, 100% of provinces and centrally run cities will meet the standards for universal preschool education for children aged 3 to 5.

The Decree clearly stipulates policies to support children from 3 to 5 years old and invest in developing facilities, school staff, classes, etc. In particular: Regarding the policy of investing in developing the network of schools, classes, facilities, teaching equipment, utensils, and toys, the Decree stipulates increasing resources from the central budget and local budgets to invest in facilities. Encourage attracting social resources to invest in facilities for developing preschool education. Invest in developing a network of preschool education facilities to ensure enough schools, facilities, teaching equipment, utensils, and toys to implement universal preschool education for children from 3 to 5 years old. Raise the standards of preschool education facilities in the direction of standardization and modernization, meeting the requirements of implementing universal preschool education for children from 3 to 5 years old.

The Decree stipulates: Prioritize clean land funds, allow flexible conversion of land use purposes to land for construction of concentrated preschool education facilities, site clearance, and allocation of clean land for preschool education projects... Prioritize investment of central and local funds from programs and projects to ensure that by 2030, 100% of public preschool education facilities and preschool education facilities of the armed forces in communes with especially difficult socio -economic conditions, communes in difficult areas, ethnic minority and mountainous areas, border areas, islands, beaches, coastal areas, densely populated areas, areas with industrial parks, clusters, and export processing zones have enough schools and classrooms, ensuring 1 classroom/kindergarten class, 100% solid classrooms, enough functional rooms, preschool libraries, enough outdoor toys, classroom toys, teaching equipment, enough kitchens, toilets, and clean water facilities according to regulations.

Regarding staff development policy, the Decree requires ensuring the arrangement of a sufficient number of preschool teachers at the maximum level according to prescribed norms; ensuring policies and regimes for the team of managers, teachers, and staff performing the task of universalizing preschool education for children from 3 to 5 years old in preschool education facilities...

Source: https://nhandan.vn/tang-cuong-pho-cap-giao-duc-mam-non-post917303.html