Are pre-school institutions qualified to kid day-care?

A recent investigation in Beijing has shown that many private pre-schools are not properly equipped or qualified to the standard of public kindergartens, reported the Beijing Youth Daily on Monday.

Despite all this, many parents have little other choice than to send their children to the private pre-school educational institutes as getting their child into public kindergartens is very difficult.

Another reason is that kindergartens are not allowed to give teaching classes to kids, while many parents hope their children to learn as much as possible before going to school.

An online search shows over a thousand options for pre-schools in Beijing. However, the majority of them are private institutes and not public kindergartens.

A recent investigation in Beijing has shown that many private pre-schools are not properly equipped or qualified to the standard of public kindergartens, reported the Beijing Youth Daily on Monday.

Despite all this, many parents have little other choice than to send their children to the private pre-school educational institutes as getting their child into public kindergartens is very difficult.

Another reason is that kindergartens are not allowed to give teaching classes to kids, while many parents hope their children to learn as much as possible before going to school.

An online search shows over a thousand options for pre-schools in Beijing. However, the majority of them are private institutes and not public kindergartens.

"I'm very busy with work, and this preschool saves us a lot of trouble," one parent said.

The regulations around such institutes are very unclear, and the Bureau of Industry and Commerce along with Beijing Municipal Education Commission have not set any rule of clarifications over the issue.