Member of Parliament Maria Fernanda has urged the Ministry of Education (ME) to speed up the process to implement a pre-school curriculum. 
MP Lay said a single curriculum should be in place.
She said while the curriculum had been in planning since 2013, it had not yet been implemented.
Primary Education deputy minister Dulce de Jesus Soares said the pre-school curriculum would focus on literacy, numeracy and general development.
Soares said planning was 75 per cent complete, with the first presentation planned for the Council of Ministers sometime this month.
She said the curriculum roll-out was limited by the number of staff at her disposal.
She said the new curriculum should be based on pedagogical concepts and teachers should be properly trained.
The teachers should have a lesson plan to guide them to teach efficiently, she said.
Many teachers were incapable of devising lesson plans, she said.
