Order and Procedures for Establishing a Kindergarten in Vietnam

13:46, 11/07/2024

Consolidated Document No. 05/VBHN-BGDDT on the Charter of Preschool Institutions stipulates the position, tasks, organization, and management of preschools, kindergartens, and daycare centers; the program, nurturing, care, and education activities for children,... Notably, the procedures for establishing a preschool are stipulated as follows:

Order	Content
Step 1. Prepare dossier for proposal to establish or permit the establishment of the school or child care facility
1. Conditions for establishment, permission for establishment	- There is a proposal for the establishment of a school, child care facility in line with the local socio-economic development plan and educational network, approved by a competent state authority; - The proposal clearly outlines the goals, tasks, programs, and educational content; land, facilities, equipment, the intended site for school construction; organizational structure, resources, and finance; strategic direction for the construction and development of the school, child care facility.
2. Composition of the dossier	- A proposal to establish the school, child care facility stating the necessity of the establishment; the name of the school, child care facility; the proposed location for the organization of nurturing, caring for, and educating children; - An establishment scheme identifying the compatibility with the socio-economic development plan and educational network; goals, tasks, programs, and educational content; land, facilities, equipment; organizational structure, teaching staff, and management personnel; resources and finance; plans, strategies, and solutions for the construction and development of the school, child care facility at each stage. - The proposal should clearly state the projected total capital for implementing the plans and ensure the nurturing, care, and education of children in the first 3 years of establishment and subsequent years, with a detailed explanation of the feasibility and legality of investment capital sources for the construction and development of the school, child care facility at each stage. - A written document on the policy of land allocation or a principal lease contract for land, housing as school headquarters with a minimum rental period of 05 years. - A draft overall master plan and preliminary design of the architectural works to be constructed on the land for school, child care facility construction, or the architectural design ensuring conformity with the educational scale and standard area of use for nurturing, caring for, and educating children.
Step 2. Submit the dossier to the District People's Committee (DPC)	- Commune People's Committees for public schools, child care facilities; organizations, individuals for private, people-founded schools, child care facilities submit the dossier to the District People's Committee. - Within 20 days, the DPC directs the Department of Education and Training to provide an assessment of whether the proposal dossier meets all the conditions mentioned above. - Within 15 days from the date of receipt of the assessment from the Department of Education and Training, the DPC issues a decision on the establishment or permission for the establishment of the school, child care facility.
Step 3. Prepare the dossier for the request for permission to operate educational activities
1. Conditions for permission to operate	- There is a decision on the establishment or permission to establish the school, child care facility. - There are land, school premises, facilities, and equipment that meet the requirements to maintain and develop educational activities. - The school construction site ensures an educational environment that is safe for learners, teachers, and workers. - There are at least 03 child groups or kindergarten classes with a minimum of 50 children and not more than 20 child groups or kindergarten classes. - There is a Pre-school Education Program and materials for child care and education in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training. - There is a team of teachers and management staff meeting standards, sufficient in number, reasonable in structure, ensuring the implementation of the Pre-school Education Program and organizing educational activities as prescribed. - There are adequate financial resources as prescribed to sustain and develop educational activities. - There is a regulation on the organization and operation of the school, child care facility.
2. Composition of the dossier	- Certified copy of the Decision on the establishment or permission to establish the school, child care facility. - A proposal requesting permission to operate educational activities. - A detailed report on the implementation of the investment scheme for the establishment of the school, child care facility, clearly showing: The conditions of land, facilities, equipment for nurturing, caring for, and educating children; the team of teachers and management staff, finance. - List of teachers, specifying their educational qualifications; work contracts signed between the school, child care facility and each teacher. - List of key management personnel (Principal, Vice Principal, Department Heads) specifying their educational qualifications; work contracts signed between the school, child care facility and each management staff. - Pre-school Education Program, materials for implementing the program. - List of the number of classrooms, workrooms, facilities, equipment. - Legal document verifying land use rights or lease contract for the school headquarters with a minimum duration of 05 years; - Legal documents verifying the current funds managed by the school, child care facility, ensuring their legality and a commitment to use these funds exclusively for investment in construction and recurring activities after being permitted to operate educational activities; plans to mobilize and balance further funds to ensure stable operation of the school, child care facility in a 5-year period, starting from the enrollment year. - Regulation on the organization and operation, and internal expenditure regulation of the school, child care facility.
Step 4. Submit the dossier requesting permission to operate educational activities to the Department of Education and Training (DOET)	- DOET receives and organizes the assessment of the dossier requesting permission to operate educational activities. - If the dossier is incomplete, notify the school, child care facility to revise and supplement. If the dossier meets all requirements, notify the plan for practical assessment at the school, child care facility. - Within 20 working days from the date of the practical assessment notice, DOET cooperates with related departments to organize the practical assessment. - If the school, child care facility meets the conditions, the head of DOET at the district level issues a Decision permitting educational activities; if not, DOET notifies the school, child care facility in writing and states the reasons.

See more at Consolidated Document 05/VBHN-BGDDT.

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