The education sector will need more than VND6,600 billion (roughly US$412.5 million) to carry out a pre-school education development project through 2015.

The project was discussed at a forum on the quality of pre-school education in Vietnam held in Hanoi on May 18 with the participation of international organisations, including the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), OXFAM and Save the Children UK.

The pre-school education development project is aimed at reforming the teaching contents and methods of pre-school education with a view to applying the new teaching contents and methods to 80 percent of the children in Vietnam by 2010 and to 100 percent of Vietnamese children by 2015.