Early Childhood Education is a crucial strategic intervention for raising the quality of primary education especially for children whose parents are both not educated. It assists children’s transition from home to formal education. The main goal of pre primary school programme is to prepare underprivileged children for mainstream primary school entry.
In underprivileged families parents may not have the education required to teach them foundational literacy, reading, and mathematical skills, nor have the same kind of enthusiasm for the requirements and impersonal schedules of formal education that is common to better-off, educated parents. It offers a basic academic foundation, and the critical emotional and physical development needed for achievement in primary school. Other than education, children with special needs get medical support, change infrastructure for them and necessary assistive.
Pre-primary education includes all types of organized and sustained centre-based events such as pre-schools, kindergartens and day-care centres created to impart learning, emotional and social development in children. Introducing pre primary classes in all government and government-aided schools and private schools will make sure that children will more likely start primary school with a strong background necessary for success. Importance is given for teachers who have at least ten years of education and a senior school certificate. The holistic pre primary school syllabus enhances physical, emotional, social and cognitive skills.
Identifying that early childhood education can set the basis for later educational achievements, especially for those from disadvantaged backgrounds; there has been an increasing focus on this sector in recent years. Education ministers set a goal that by 2020 that at least 95% of children between four years old and the age for beginning mandatory primary education should participate in early childhood education. It is also increasingly identified that the quality of such services are paramount. Nearly one in eight households has a child under the age of six. Today, for the first time, the Commission launches an action plan targeted at offering every child a good beginning in life and to set the basis for successful lifelong knowledge, social integration, personal development and employability later in life. Investing in quality pre-school education is much more helpful than interfering later. It gives our youngsters a good opportunity in life and actually saves money in the long run. Breaking the cycle of poverty and disadvantage also implies reducing costs for the taxpayer for health and hospital services, remedial education, welfare and policing. Mandatory education starts at the age of 5 or 6 in most Member States. The level of services offered for adolescents up to the start of compulsory education varies considerably in terms of funding, governance and staffing policies. The Commission’s plans will contribute to the objectives of two initiatives “Youth on the Move”, “Agenda for New Skills and Jobs”.
The Commission will also give importance to investments in the area of early pre primary education and care through the Social Fund and Regional Development Fund, as well as through support from the Lifelong Learning Programme and the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development.
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