Mozambique will have, for the first time, a curriculum for Pre-School Education, aimed at developing skills and creating readiness in children who wish to enter Primary Education.

The National Institute for Educational Development (INDE) has completed the development of standards and competencies for Pre-School Education and will move on to testing the likely models next year.

"We have already finished the preparation of the Preschool curriculum. We will do the testing next year. We have to see what models to implement, given that we have no experience in that regard. We have to study to see how this will work," the director-general of the INDE, Ismael Nhêze, annointed, adding that: "at this moment we are to test the curriculum, the models and propose to the Government ways to have the teaching in the country".

To this end, INDE is working directly with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Action in search of models to implement, namely whether it will be more fruitful to have isolated day-care centers or linked to a school.

In the near future, it is also intended that children aged three be accompanied by a kindergarten teacher, who will put them in contact with playful activities that will enable the development of skills such as listening, speaking, singing, and socializing, the so-called school readiness, in other words, the readiness to attend school.

According to the director general of INDE, this new curriculum should be implemented in both urban and rural areas.

The country currently has about 200 state nurseries (inherited from colonial times) and thousands of private ones, which are not accessible to many ordinary citizens because they are very expensive.