ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS OF EQUITY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Abstract

The second target of Sustainable Development Goals exists to ensure that all girls and boys across the globe are ready for primary education as they have access to quality early childhood development, care, and preschool education (UNICEF, 2018). Education can help children who are not capable of attending a good school due to one common barrier: money. On the other hand, some parents cannot send their kids to public schools as the acting law does not accordingly require an Early Childhood Education Program. Worse, a preschool program is pricey and often unaffordable to many low-income communities. This paper searches for issues in the education system of Malaysia in terms of equity in young children education and the essential solution conducted by the Ministry of Education (MOE).