The kindergarten registration in Ulaanbaatar will begin on 25 July. Parents need to register their children via tsetserleg.ulaanbaatar.mn. Spots in the coveted government-funded kindergartens, for children aged two to five, are being determined by an online ballot. Those who miss out risk being deprived of the early years’ education system altogether, unless they can afford a fee-paying option.

The city’s publicly funded kindergartens have spaces for just half of the 146,000 children between the ages of two and five who live in UB, according to the municipal education department.