Basic standard facilities of preschools in Vietnam

Basic standard facilities of preschools in Vietnam (Internet image)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. Standards on scale of preschools in Vietnam

According to Clause 2, Article 5 of Circular 13/2020/TT-BGDDT, the scale of a preschool needs to meet the following standards:

- A preschool shall have at least 9 groups/classes and up to 20 groups/classes.

Schools in communes in disadvantaged areas shall have at least 5 groups/classes;

- Based on local conditions, may locate schools in different administrative divisions to enable children to go to schools.

Situate no more than 5 school clusters; schools in communes in disadvantaged areas may situate no more than 8 school clusters depending on practical conditions.

2. Basic standard facilities of preschools in Vietnam

Basic standard facilities of preschools in Vietnam are prescribed as follows:

(1) Administration rooms

- Principal room: has adequate working space, office equipment and devices according to applicable regulations and law;

- Vice principal room: has office equipment and devices according to applicable regulations and law;

- School office: at least 1; has adequate office equipment and devices according to applicable regulations and law;

- Staff room: at least 1; has lockers for personal items;

- Security room: at least 1; situated near entrance of the school with good visibility;

- Sanitary areas for teachers, officials and employees: situated together with rooms for other functions and separate by gender.  For cases of having the separate toilet area, it should be placed in a convenient location for use and does not affect the environment;

- Parking lot for teachers, officials and employees: has roof and adequate parking spaces.

(2) Children nursing, caring and education rooms

- Children nursing, caring and education rooms

Ensure that each group/class has a room serving following functions:

= General space for learning, playing and eating activities;

= Sleeping area (for preschool groups and classes, may use the general spaces);

= Sanitary areas shall be constructed within children nursing, caring and education rooms with 1.2 m tall partitions separating urinating spots from toilet bowls;

Situate 2 to 3 urinal bowls for boys (or urinal trenches at least 2 m in length) and 2 to 3 toilet bowls for girls, hand wash areas must be installed with 1 wash-basin for every 8 children, sanitation equipment must be age-appropriate;

For children in preschools, separate restrooms separately for boys and girls; sanitary areas installed separately must be connected with children nursing, caring and education rooms by corridors, suitable for use and monitor;

Porches: convenient for taking children to schools, picking up children and activities of children when sunny, raining; surrounded by guardrails no shorter than 1 m;

- Physical education and fine art rooms: connected with children nursing, caring and education rooms by corridors.

Schools that have up to 14 groups/classes shall situate at least 1 room for physical education and fine art education (multipurpose room); schools that have more than 14 groups/classes must situate 1 room for physical education and 1 room for fine art education. School cluster with at least 5 groups/classes must situate at least 1 multipurpose room;

- Separate playgrounds: install outdoor equipment and toys as per the law.

(3) Catering rooms (applicable to schools that organize cooking)

- Kitchen: situated independently of other functional rooms; consists of preparation areas, processing areas, cooking areas, food distribution areas; designed and organized in a one-piece flow manner;

- Storage: separates storage of raw food and cooked food; installed with independent and convenient product input and output routes and separated for each type of food; equipped with food preservation equipment.

(4) Auxiliary rooms

- Conference room: at least 1; used as general space and professional working space for teachers when they are not teaching in classes, equipped with equipment according to applicable regulations and law;

- Medical room: at least 1; located in a convenient location for initial medical treatment, emergency medical treatment; medicine cabinets with essential medicines, first aid equipment and hospital beds;

- Storage: at least 1; to store general equipment and school supplies;

- Garden: consists of playgrounds and trees, grass; used to organize outdoor activities and theater. Flat, non-slip and smooth surface with shade provided by trees;

- Gates and fences: school and school cluster premises must be separated from the outside by sturdy and safe fences (walls or trees); gates of schools and school clusters must be reinforced and firm to hold school name signs.

(5) Technical infrastructure

- Clean water supply: meets use demand, water quality regulation and standards according to applicable regulations and law; water drainage system, sewer combining with covered trenches and wastewater treatment system satisfy wastewater quality as per the law before discharging into the environment;

- Power supply system: meets capacity and safety requirements to serve school’s operations;

- Fire prevention system: complies with applicable regulations and law;

- Information, technology and communication infrastructure: phone and internet connection serving school’s operations;

- Garbage collection areas: situated independently, away from functional rooms and at the end of the wind;

Installed with separate entrance convenient for collecting and transporting garbage; installed with separate water drainage system and no affecting the environment.

* The work items specified in (1), (2), (3) and (4) shall be reinforced structures or semi-reinforced structures. Reinforced structures must not account for less than 40%.

* Teaching equipment must be guaranteed according to regulations of Ministry of Education and Training.

(Article 6 of Circular 13/2020/TT-BGDDT)

Nguyen Thi Hoai Thuong

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