Five-year-old children will be exempt from tuition fees from the start of the next school year.

Vietnam plans that by 2020, at least 92 percent of five-year-old children will be able to access kindergarten education.

Vietnam should learn from advanced early childhood education models of foreign countries and apply best practices in order to achieve its set target in developing pre-school education, heard an international workshop in Hanoi on October 11.

The southern province of Binh Phuoc has met national standards for universal preschool education for five-year-old children in 2011-2016, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.