L.Gantomor: Almost 900 thousand will enroll at schools

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ In the 2013-2014 academic years, 191 thousand and 815 children will go to kindergartens, 134 thousand 763 of them are to go to state-owned kindergartens, the rest (25,438)--to private kindergartens. The Minister of Education and Science L.Gantomor Wednesday said it at a news conference, when highlighting a preparation for the academic year. He said 504 thousand and 233 will enroll at primary and secondary schools, whereas 175 thousand and 591 students--at 99 state-owned and private universities, institutes, colleges and vocational training centers. Then the Minister informed the media about the supply of textbooks and uniforms, construction and assembling works for school buildings, repairing, also about programmes being implemented by the Ministry and schools and kindergartens provision.