CIRCULAR

ISSUING REGULATIONS ON PROCESS AND CYCLE OF QUALITY APPRAISAL OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION

Pursuant to the Education Law dated June 14, 2005; the Law amending and supplementing some Articles of the Education Law dated November 25, 2009;

Pursuant to the Decree No.178/2007/ND-CP dated December 03, 2007 of the Government regulating functions, duties, powers and organizational structure of ministries, ministerial-level agencies;

Pursuant to the Decree No.32/2008/ND-CP dated March 19, 2008 of the Government regulating functions, duties, powers and organizational structure of Ministry of Education and Training;

Pursuant to the Decree No.75/2006/ND-CP dated August 02, 2006 of the Government detailing and guiding the implementation of some Articles of the Education Law; the Decree No.31/2011/ND-CP dated May 11, 2011 of the Government amending and supplementing some Articles of Decree No.75/2006/ND-CP dated August 02, 2006 of the Government detailing and guiding the implementation of some Articles of the Law on Education;

At the proposal of the Director of Testing and Education Quality Appraisal,

Minister of Education and Training decides:

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Article 2. This Circular takes effect as from November 26, 2011.

Article 3. Chief Office, Director of Testing and Education Quality Appraisal, heads of concerned units under the Ministry of Education and Training, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities directly under the Central Government, directors of Departments of education and training are responsible for the implementation of this Circular./.

FOR MINISTER
DEPUTY MINISTER




Nguyen Thi Nghia

REGULATIONS

ON PROCESS AND CYCLE OF QUALITY APPRAISAL OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION
(Issued together Circular No.: 45/2011/TT-BGDDT dated October 11, 2011 of Minister of Education and Training)

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GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope of governing and application subjects

1. This document defines on process and and cycle of quality appraisal of preschool education, including self-assessment of preschool; registration for external assessment and registration for accreditation of achieving standards of quality preschool education; external assessment of preschools; accreditation of preschool achieving standards of education quality and grant of certificates of education quality appraisal.

2. This document applies to the preschools, kindergartens and baby-farming houses (hereinafter referred to as pre-schools) of all categories in the national education system, concerned organizations and individuals.

Article 2. Interpretation of terms

In this document, the following terms below are construed as follows:

1. Quality appraisal of preschool education means the assessment of preschools (including self-assessment and external assessment) to determine the level that schools may meet the standards of education quality assessment and accreditation of the schools achieving the standards of quality education of the state management agencies.

2. Self-assessment of preschool means the activities of self review, self inspection, and self evaluation of the preschools according to the standards of education quality assessment.

3. External assessment of preschool means the assessment activity of the State management agencies in order to determine the level of achieving the standards of quality assessment of preschool education.

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Appraisal of quality of preschool education is to help the schools to determine the levels of meeting educational objectives in each stage, to develop improvement plans, improve the quality of care for and educating children; to inform publicly with the social and state management agencies on the status of educational quality of the schools; to let the state management agencies evaluate and accredit the schools achieving standards of education quality.

Article 4. Appraisal principles of preschool education quality

1. Independence, objectiveness and lawfulness.

2. Honesty, openness and transparency.

Article 5. Process and cycle of quality appraisal of preschool education

1. Process of appraising preschool education quality is as follows:

a) Self-Assessment of preschool;

b) Registration for external assessment and registration for accreditation achieving standards of preschool education quality;

c) External assessment of preschool;

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2. Cycle of appraising preschool education quality

a) Cycle of appraising preschool education quality is 5 years from the date of signing the decision to issue certificates of education quality appraisal;

b) Preschools that achieve grade 1 as prescribed in Article 14 of this Regulation, after at least 2 years, are registered for assessment for upgrading to level 2.

Chapter II

SELF ASSESSMENT OF THE PRESCHOOLS

Article 6. Process of self-assessment

1. To establish a council of self-assessment.

2. To build up the self-evaluation plan.

3. To collect, handle and analyze information and evidence.

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5. To write self-assessment report.

6. To publicize the self-assessment report.

Article 7. Council of self-assessment

1. Principal shall make decision to establish a council of self-assessment of preschool. A council of self-assessment comprises of at least 5 members.

2. Composition of the council of self-assessment comprises of:

a) Chairman of council is the principal of the school;

b) Vice-chairman of council is the vice principal of the school;

c) Secretary of council is the secretary of school council, or school’s qualified teacher;

d) The members include representatives of the school council for public schools or management board for private schools; the heads of expertise groups, heads of office groups; representatives of the Party committee (if any) and other organizations, associations.

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1. The council of self-assessment has a function of implementing self-assessment and advising the principal on the measures to improve the quality of the school activities.

2. Duties and powers of the council of self-assessment

a) The council of self-assessment is responsible for setting up the self-assessment plan; collecting information and evidence, writing self-evaluation report; publicizing the self-assessment report; storing database on self-assessment of the school;

b) The Chairman of council is responsible for operating the Council's activities, assign tasks to each member; approving self-evaluation plan; and setting up a group of secretariat and the working groups to implement activities of self-evaluation; directing the process of collecting, processing, analyzing information and evidence; approving self-assessment report; solving the problems arising in the process of implementing self-assessment;

c) Vice-chairman of the council performs the tasks assigned by the council’s chairman, executes the council as authorized by the chairman;

d) The council’s secretary, the council’s members are responsible for performing the works assigned by the council’s chairman and take responsibility for the assigned works.

3. The council of self-assessment may request the principal to hire consultants to help the council to implement self-evaluation if necessary. The consultants have to deep knowledge of education quality appraisal and techniques of self-assessment.

Chapter III

REGISTRATION FOR EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT AND REGISTRATION FOR ACCREDITATION OF ACHIEVING QUALITY STANDARDS OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION

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Dossiers of registration for external assessment and registration for accreditation of achieving quality standards of preschool education include:

1. Official dispatch for registration for external assessment and registration for accreditation of achieving education quality standards.

2. Self-Assessment Report (2 copies).

Article 10. Receipt and inspection of dossiers of registration for external assessment and registration for accreditation of achieving quality standards of preschool education

1. Offices of education and training of districts, towns, and provincial cities (hereinafter referred to as Offices of education and training) shall:

a) Receive and examine dossiers of registration for external assessment and registration for accreditation of achieving education quality standards of the preschools, notify in writing to the preschools that dossiers are accepted or required to continue to improve;

b) Submit dossiers of registration for external assessment and registration for accreditation of achieving education quality standards of the preschools that have been accepted to the Department of education and training.

2. Departments of Education and Training are responsible for receiving, inspecting dossiers of registration for external assessment and registration for accreditation of achieving education quality standards of the preschools from the Offices of education and training, notifying in writing to the Offices of education and training that dossiers are accepted or required to continue to improve.

Chapter IV

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Article 11. Process of external assessment

1. To research dossier of assessment.

2. To survey preliminarily in the preschool.

3. To survey officially survey in the preschool.

4. To draft external assessment report.

5. To collect feedback of the preschool on the draft of external assessment report.

6. To complete the external assessment report.

Article 12. The team of preschool external assessment

1. The organizational structure of the preschool external assessment team

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a) Team leader is the principal or vice principal of the preschool;

b) The secretary and the members of the team are managers, preschool’s teachers having experience in implementing education quality assessment.

2. Standards of the external assessment team’s members: have good moral character, honesty and objectivity; not working for the preschool to be externally assessed in the past and present; have at least 5 years of experience in the education sector, have completed the training program on external assessment organized by the Ministry of Education and Training or a unit to be authorized by the Ministry of Education and Training.

3. The mission of the external assessment team

a) The external assessment team is responsible for survey, evaluation and determination of the level that pre-school may meet the criterion in the standard of assessing the quality of education; the request for accrediting or not accrediting the preschool achieving the standard of education quality;

b) The team head is responsible for executing the activities of the external assessment team and assigning tasks to members;

c) Secretary prepares the reports, minutes, synthesizes external assessments, and helps the team head to deploy the external assessment activities;

d) Other members perform the tasks assigned by the team head.

4. The external assessment team shall keep secret all information related to job content and evaluation result before the official result is sent to preschool to be externally assessed.

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1. The draft of assessment report must be sent to the pre-school to be evaluated externally for consultation. Within 10 working days after receiving the draft of assessment report, if the pre-school has no feedback, it is considered as agreed.

2. Within 10 working days after receiving the feedback of the pre-school to be evaluated externally, the external assessment team shall send written notice to the preschool the opinions to be accepted or reserved. In case of reserving their opinions, the external assessment team must clearly state the reason.

3. Official external assessment report of the preschool is posted up to the website of department of the education and training.

Chapter V

ACCREDITATION OF PRESCHOOL ACHIEVING STANDARDS FOR EDUCATION QUALITY AND GRANT OF CERTIFICATES OF EDUCATION QUALITY APPRAISAL

Article 14. Accreditation of preschool achieving standards for education quality

1. The preschools are evaluated and accredited achievement of standards of education quality according to standards of evaluating preschool education quality, issued together with Circular No.07/2011/TT-BGDDT dated February 17, 2011 of Minister of Education and Training.

2. Preschools are accredited achievement of standards of education quality by two levels:

a) Level 1: Preschools have at least the following criterion meeting the requirements:

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- Standard 2 comprises of the following criterion: 1, 2, 3.

- Standard 3 comprises of the following criterion: 3, 6.

- Standard 4 comprises of the criterion: 1.

- Standard 5 comprises of the following criterion: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

b) Level 2: Preschools have at least 80% of criterion meeting the requirements, which must meet the criterion defined at level 1.

3. The criterion is accredited as satisfactory when all the indicators of criteria are satisfactory.

Article 15. Grant of certificates of the appraisal of education quality and publication of the results of the appraisal of preschool education quality

1. Based on the results of external assessment, within 15 working days, the directors of departments of education and training submit dossiers to request the Presidents of People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities (hereinafter referred to as the provincial-level president of People's Committees) for making decision to grant certificates of the appraisal of education quality for preschool.

2. Dossier of application for granting certificates of the appraisal of education quality includes:

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b) The external assessment report of preschool.

3. Within 15 working days, the President of the provincial-level People's Committee makes decision on granting certificate of the appraisal of education quality for preschool. Form of certificate of education quality appraisal is under the Appendix of this provision.

4. The result of preschool education quality appraisal is publicly available on the websites of the departments of education and training.

Article 16. Revocation of certificate of education quality appraisal

1. Where a certificate of education quality appraisal is still valid but the pre-school is no longer to meet the standards of education quality assessment, the certificate of education quality appraisal shall be revoked.

2. Within 10 working days after the conclusion of the education management agency is asserted that preschool is no longer to meet the standards of education quality assessment, director of department of education and training completes dossier and submits to President of the provincial-level People's Committee for making decision to withdraw its the certificate of education quality appraisal.

3. Dossier of application for revocation of the certificate of education quality appraisal includes:

a) The statement of the director of department of education and training;

b) The written conclusion of education management agency.

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Chapter VI

ORGANIZATION OF IMPLEMENTATION

Article 17. The responsibility of departments of education and training

1. To build up the plans to appraise preschool education quality, guide, direct, inspect and supervise district-level sections of education and training to appraise the quality of preschool education in accordance with provisions of the Ministry of Education and Training.

2. To organize the professional training for the units and individuals performing the appraisal of preschool education quality.

3. Periodically, report to the President of provincial-level People's Committee, Ministry of Education and Training the number of pre-schools completed self-evaluation report, the number of preschools to be accepted external assessment, external assessment plan, external assessment results and activities related to the appraisal of preschool education quality for guidance, direction, examination, inspection and supervision.

Article 18. The responsibility of district-level sections of education and training

1. To build up the plans to appraise preschool education quality, guide, direct, supervise and inspect the preschools on the implementation of documents related to pre-school education quality appraisal issued by departments of education and training, Ministry of Education and Training.

2. To monitor the pre-schools that have been accredited or have not been accredited achieving standards of education quality in implementing plans to improve the quality of education formulated in the self-assessment report and the recommendations of the external assessment team to overcome their existences, continue to improve the quality of education.

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Article 19. Responsibilities of the preschools

1. To perform self-assessment process under this Regulation.

2. To perform the quality improvement plans formulated in the self-assessment report and the recommendations of the external assessment team.

3. To prepare completely dossiers, data related to school’s activities, other necessary conditions to serve the external assessment; reply timely the opinions on draft external assessment report.

4. To strengthen and promote the results of appraising the preschool education quality, and constantly improve; innovate the quality of education.

Article 20. Funds for operation

1. Operation of appraising preschool education quality is done by state funds and assistant resources of domestic, abroad organizations and individuals under the current regulations of the State Budget Law and the other relevant provisions.

2. Every year, Departments of education and training and district-level sections of education and training establish state funds to spend for the activities of appraising preschool education quality./.

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