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Ho Chi Minh City has increased its budget allocation for preschool education and has called on the private sector to invest in building kindergartens to meet increasing demand.

Nguyen Thanh Long, deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education, introduced Vietnam’s achievements in preschool education, at the 19th International Meeting on Early and Preschool Education in Mexico’s Monterrey city from October 9-13.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on educational cooperation between the governments of Vietnam and the United Kingdom was signed in Hanoi on October 3 by Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha and Ed Vaizey, Trade Envoy of the British Prime Minister.

Vietnam plans that by 2020, at least 92 percent of five-year-old children will be able to access kindergarten education.

Vietnam was among the 25 countries and international organisations that participated in the 18th International Meeting on Early and Preschool Education in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico from October 18 – 20.

The National Assembly completed the three-day question period in the afternoon of June 6, which many NA deputies and voters assessed as productive thanks to changes in the rules for question-&-answer.

The southern province of Binh Phuoc has met national standards for universal preschool education for five-year-old children in 2011-2016, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Soc Trang has completed making preschool education universal among five-year-old children since December 2016, as heard at a working session on February 15.

The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has fulfilled universal preschool education for five-year-old children, Director of the provincial Department of Education and Training Pham Dang Khoa said on January 4.

The central province of Binh Thuan has fulfilled the target of universalising preschool education for five-year-old children, said a working team from the Ministry of Education and Training on May 12.

All 17 districts and towns in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai have met target of universal preschool education for five-year-old children, said the Ministry of Education and Training.