The Hanoi Education and Training Department set the target at a conference held on Tuesday to review the success of the plan to boost national standardised education and training programmes developed over the last five years and to set goals for the next 2016-20 period.

Noting the progressive results of the last five-year plan, the department has pledged to annually increase the target by 70 schools, while continuing to remove schools with unqualified or low-quality classes.

Schools expected to meet national standards of education will include newly built and upgraded schools across the city, according to the department. Over the past five years, the capital’s education sector has fulfilled its target of recognising 600 schools as meeting national education standards, or 45 per cent of the total 2,532 schools in some 30 districts.

The districts of Long Bien and Bac Tu Liem topped the list with the most schools to have standardised their education facilities.

Pham Hong Nga, deputy director of the Hanoi Education and Training Department, said the plan to build and upgrade kindergartens and primary schools to meet national standards was a priority for the department and its local branches.

The plan specifies that standardisation should be the key task of not only the education sector but also other authorities in the city, as it needs cooperation from many partners.