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THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
161/2002/QD-TTg
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Hanoi, November 15, 2002
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DECISION
ON A NUMBER OF POLICIES ON PRESCHOOL
EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on
Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the December 2, 1998 Education Law;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s
Decision No. 201/2001/QD-TTg of December 28, 2001 approving the 2001-2010
educational development strategy;
At the proposal of the Minister of Education and Training,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- Tasks of preschool education development till
2010
1. The State shall continue increasing
investment in preschool education development and at the same time boost the preschool
education socialization, expand the system of creches and kindergartens in all
population areas; give priority to the investment in the development of
preschool education in communes meeting with socio-economic difficulties as
well as high-mountain and island communes; enhance the dissemination of
childcare knowledge to families, thus raising the quality of the care for and
education of children before they reach 6 years of age, creating conditions for
children to develop all-sidedly in terms of physical strength, emotion,
intelligence and aesthetics, and forming the first elements of their
personalities.
2. Specific tasks:
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- The percentage of under-3 children going to
creche to reach at least 15%;
- The percentage of children aged between 3 and
5 going to kindergarten to reach at least 58%;
- The percentage of children aged 5 going to
kindergarten to reach at least 85%.
b/ By 2010:
- The percentage of under-3 children going to
creche to reach 18%;
- The percentage of children aged between 3 and
5 going to kindergarten to reach 67%;
- The percentage of children aged 5 going to
kindergarten to reach 95%.
Article 2.- Orientations for the development of forms of
preschool education establishment till 2010
1. Forms of preschool education establishment:
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b/ Semi-public preschool education
establishments, including:
Preschool education establishments with the
State’s investment in initial
material foundations, preschool education establishments in rural areas
previously invested by agricultural cooperatives but now directly managed by
the commune/ward/township People’s
Committees, which operate on the basis of self-management of finance and human
resources or enjoy necessary support from local budgets to ensure the
educational quality.
c/ People-founded preschool education
establishments, including creches and kindergartens allowed to be set up and/or
invested by social organizations, socio-professional organizations or economic
organizations with non-State budget capital.
d/ Private preschool education establishments,
including creches and kindergartens allowed to be set up and/or invested by
individuals or groups of individuals.
2. Development orientations:
a/ Public preschool education establishments
shall be built mainly in communes meeting with exceptional socio-economic
difficulties in mountainous, border, deep-lying and remote areas on the lists
prescribed by the Prime Minister;
b/ Semi-public preschool education
establishments shall be built mainly in rural areas other than those mentioned
at Point a above and in the areas with low living standards in cities, provincial
towns or district townships;
c/ To encourage the setting up of people-founded
and private creches and kindergartens in cities, provincial towns, district
townships, industrial zones and socio-economically developed areas;
d/ To transform public creches and kindergartens
in socio-economically developed areas, cities, provincial towns, district
townships and industrial zones into non-public ones or non-business units with
revenues under the State’s regulations.
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The preschool education program shall be
compiled under the direction and implemented under the guidance, of the
Ministry of Education and Training. The program must suit to the
psycho-physiological development of preschoolers; create basis for them to
develop all-sidedly in terms of physical strength, sentiment, intelligence and
aesthetics, and formulate the first elements of their personalities; and serve
the transitional period between kindergarten and the first grade of general
education.
Article 4.- Development of the contingent of preschool
teachers
1. The preschool teacher payroll:
a/ The preschool teacher payroll shall be
allocated mainly to communes meeting with exceptional socio-economic
difficulties, high mountain and island communes, who shall play the core role
in profession, operation and management of the development of preschool
education in such localities.
b/ The percentage of preschool teachers on the
State payroll must be defined and arranged according to characteristics of
zones, regions and population density, step by step overcoming irrationalities
in the current structure of preschool teacher payroll.
c/ In socio-economically developed areas like
cities, provincial towns, district townships and areas where exist industrial
parks, factories and/or enterprises, preschool teachers shall be recruited to
work under labor contracts.
d/ In 2002 and 2003, efforts shall be
concentrated on directing public schools in socio-economic difficulty-hit
communes to have principals, vice-principals and a number of key teachers on
the payroll; and semi-public preschool institutions in rural areas to have
principals and vice-principals on the payroll.
e/ Preschool education establishments short of
teachers under the State�s regulations shall be
entitled to recruit enough teachers to work under labor contracts (hereinafter
called contractual teachers for short).
2. Regimes and policies for preschool teachers
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For semi-public preschool education
establishments, if the above-mentioned revenue sources are not enough to pay
wages, social and health insurance premiums for contractual teachers, the
deficit shall be made up for by the State budget so as to ensure the payment of
social and health insurance premiums for such teachers and that the payment of
their wages which must not be lower than the State-prescribed minimum wage.
Article 5.- Investment policies and planning for development
of preschool education
1. The Ministry of Education and Training and
the People’s Committees of the
provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to work out and direct the
implementation of preschool education development planning on the basis of the
socio-economic development planning and the demand for raising the quality of
all-round education of the young generation.
The building of schools and classes; the
procurement of facilities and equipment for preschool education development
shall be effected on the principle of the State’s
and people’s joint efforts. The
State shall concentrate its investment in socio-economic difficulty-hit areas,
high-mountain and island areas.
2. The People’s
Committees of all levels shall work out plans to build and consolidate material
foundations for preschool education establishments, increase their facilities
and equipment, utensils and toys, thereby meeting the requirements of
renovation of the preschool education contents, programs and methods. To strive
to have 20% of preschool institutions up to the national standards by 2005, and
50% by 2010.
3. The State shall earmark part of the annual
budget for preschool education development. The financial sources for preschool
education development include:
a/ The State budget;
b/ The tuition fees and contributions to school
construction under current regulations.
c/ The financial assistance, aids and donations
of organizations and individuals at home and abroad.
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e/ The capital borrowed from banks and credit
institution at preferential interest rates.
f/ Other lawful revenues.
Article 6.- Responsibilities of the State management
agencies
1. The Ministries of: Education and Training;
Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs; the Interior; Finance; Planning and
Development shall, based on their functions and tasks, guide the implementation
of this Decision.
2. The People’s
Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall direct:
a/ The planning of the network of public and
non-public creches and kindergartens suited to the local socio-economic
conditions, and the determination of a land fund for building of creches and
kindergartens in each commune.
b/ The implementation of the plans on the
building of creches and kindergartens according to the network planning; the
increase of facilities and equipment, teaching aids and toys for preschool
education establishments, thus meeting the requirements of renovation of
preschool education contents, programs and methods.
c/ The decision on the tuition fee levels and
contributions to the building of public and semi-public creches and
kindergartens in accordance with the State’s
current regulations and suited to the local socio-economic conditions on the
basis of approval of the People’s
Councils of the same level.
d/ The elaboration of plans and implementation
of specific solutions for training and fostering of preschool teachers who
attain the standard qualifications as prescribed by the Education Law.
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f/ The reservation of budget to ensure the
implementation of policies and regimes for teachers under the State’s regulations; the support of wages, social
insurance and health insurance premiums for preschool teachers working under
labor contracts at public and semi-public preschool education establishments.
3. The district-level People’s Committees shall have the responsibility:
To work out preschool education development
programs and projects under direction of the superior People’s Committees; to elaborate planning
and plans on land use and capital construction of preschool education
establishments in localities and organize the implementation thereof after they
are approved by competent agencies; to ensure the compliance with the criteria
on regimes and policies for preschool teachers in localities.
To realize the socialization of
preschool education in localities.
4. The commune, ward or township
People’s Committees shall
direct the building of public and semi-public creches and kindergartens in
their respective communes, wards and district townships.
Article 7.- This Decision takes effect 15 days after its
singing. All previous regulations contrary to this Decision are hereby
annulled.
The ministers, the heads of the
ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the
Government and the presidents of the People’s
Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to implement
this Decision.
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