The Hanoi People’s Committee has agreed with a proposal of the municipal Departments of Education and Training, Health, and Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to continue keeping schools close in response to the spread of the COVID-19.

Students in Hanoi's public schools from kindergarten to senior high school will not return to school until after March 8, Chairman of the city’s People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has said.

Participants of the yesterday national seminar “Policies on preschool education development in industrial and export processing zones” proposed some solutions for critical shortage of preschools in HCMC’s industrial parks.

The south-eastern province of Binh Dương is considered to be a place with many public housing projects and kindergartens for workers and their children, but they are proving insufficient.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The use of native English-speaking teachers at kindergartens would improve children’s speaking skills, participants at a seminar held in HCM City on July 27 said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Children at kindergartens in 41 out of 63 provinces and cities studied English in the 2016-2017 academic year, an increase of 20 areas compared to the 2013-2014 period, 

Last Friday, the principal of a public kindergarten in Lao Cai Province was suspended on charges of mistreating a four-year-old boy enrolled at the school.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As part of a national programme to promote physical activities in preschool, teachers have been encouraged to make handmade toys for children aged five and under who attend kindergartens.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Parents of over 1,100 kindergarten children are shocked and worried after two kindergarten schools of Hoa Mai and Mua Xuan in Khuong Mai Ward in Ha Noi's Thanh Xuan District suddenly shut down last Monday without notice.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Shortage of land is preventing provinces and cities in the southern region from building kindergartens for children of workers at industrial parks and export processing zones as required by the Government.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A nationwide effort to provide five-year old children with universal access to pre-school education has seen only 18 out the 63 provinces meet the ambitious target.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training issued an official document in February-end urging kindergartens to desist from teaching foreign languages to children and not popularise the related curriculum.

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VietNamNet Bridge – Kindergartens will be banned from teaching foreign languages, according to a Ministry of Education and Training document sent to all the provinces recently. 

Hanoi and HCM City authorities have vowed to shut down the unlicensed nurseries, or the household run classes which fail to meet the requirements on safety for babies. But this means that the children from poor families would have nowhere to go.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Education and Training Department will close all nurseries that fail to meet the Ministry of Education and Training's standards on ensuring safety for babies by mid-January.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Department of Education and Training will invest in more modern school equipment, including interactive whiteboards for primary schools and kindergartens by 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Education experts have insisted tighter inspection and management of private kindergartens is needed to shore up education quality.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has been offering interest-free funding for educational projects, especially private schools, since 2011, but many complain it is almost impossible to borrow because of red tape.