The aim inherent within the Pre-primary Education Voucher Scheme, to provide affordable and quality pre-primary schooling to all students aged 3 to 6, will benefit parents, students, teachers, and pre-primary services operators.
For instance, in most regions pre-primary schooling used to be paid.
Pre-primary schooling improves a child's chance to complete a primary and secondary education.
"Pre-primary schooling is our children's educational foundation – every stage of education that follows relies on its success," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
Most of the country's children do not receive pre-primary schooling, and the overwhelming majority of pre-schools are in urban areas.
Only about 22 per cent of children in Lao PDR attend some form of pre-primary schooling, with the overwhelming majority of these enrolments in urban areas.
Pre-primary schooling for one year Children aged five and above have the opportunity to attend pre-primary school for one year through the UNICEF supported programmes.
UNICEF, in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Sports, is working to achieve the universal introduction of a pre-primary schooling year (for children aged 5-6 yeand), and in the systematic expansion of early childhood development services (for children aged 3-5 years).
In rural Nepal, we assessed the factors associated with pre-primary school attendance and its relationship to cognitive testing and school progress.
Eventually, the classes were so popular that parents asked why they weren't providing something similar to their children; this led Brac to launch its primary and pre-primary schools in 1985.
60 per cent of people with a pre-primary school child said they will use savings to cover their future costs, however, only 39 per cent of those with a child currently at university are using, or planning to use, savings.
