for 1 500 000 pupils

Remedial attention was provided to 130 pupils.

provision of clothing, shoes and school supplies to 20 of students

This is a store that caters specially to students.

(a) Provision of educational supplies and equipment. About 1,836 schools, with an estimated population of 280,000 students, were served with school supplies in nine counties in 1997.

for 8 000 schools

As part of this programme, UNICEF provides school kits, books, and pencils as well as water and sanitation support to schools.

And what we were trying to offer every day was one on one attention.

The non directly supervised schools must provide pupils with one weekly hour of physical education.

(c) Provision of counselling and career guidance for Palestine refugee students

411. The Research Academy under the Ministry of Education provides fellowships for postgraduate studies for students who wish to take a full PhD degree abroad.

The Government does not offer scholarships, but provides education loans for university attendance with a generous pay back period.12

344. In 1993 94 the number of schools offering compulsory education amounted to 2,101 gymnasia, and HF courses amounted to 153 schools in 1992 93.

Through this project, food is provided to both schoolchildren and their teachers.

(c) Distribution of school supplies and funding of scholarships for pupils and students of poor families

In the 1997 1998 school year, those activities benefited 984 slow learners, 690 pupils in need of remedial attention and 24 deaf children.

Schools provide their students with something that no other service or humanitarian assistance program can offer hope of a return to normalcy and of a future worth planning for after those delivering the emergency response have left.

Under the scholarship scheme offered by the Government of Japan through the JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency), five scholarships were provided in the course of the last year (four of which were for Mexican officials) on the theme of the quality of local health services and one concerning reproductive health.

Middle school education will offer an expanded curriculum and will last for three years, with students moving on to the senior school for a four year programme.11

Student organizations will always be free to recruit members and offer services to students.

The latter has also a special programme for Rwandan law students.

Some Governments have specifically mentioned having provided life skills to students others have reported the promotion of healthy lifestyles.

A great effort is being made in rural areas to facilitate attendance at schools which are often constructed even before the road and electricity systems have been put in place.

Many universities started distance education programmes using ITV as the primary means for programming delivery and designed to deliver both general educational programmes to rural schools and colleges and to offer accredited graduate and undergraduate degree courses to off campus students.

The role of schools in providing drug education programmes, as part of a broader, healthy lifestyle programme, as well as alternative activities for pupils, has already been examined.

A military academy had been opened and scholarships were available for girls to attend a new technical school in Ouidah.

Nunavut Arctic College provides Inuit students with education in certain fields of study and aspires to become a genuine Inuit university.

(c) Schooling in the Republic of Tajikistan is the same for girls and boys.

Textbooks for learning the national minority languages are provided free to pupils.

(i) Providing infrastructure facilities to schools

The Educational Sciences Faculty (ESF) at the Amman Training Centre reached full capacity during the 1996 97 school year, providing in service training to 619 UNRWA teachers, including 164 women, and pre service teacher training to 257 secondary school graduates, including 207 women.

The boarding school system, which provides free education and accommodation for ethnic minority students, is being expanded.

Minorities can establish their own schools these include schools providing a general education but in addition offering religious instruction for Christian pupils (subject to parental agreement) and instruction in ethics for non Christians, and also religious establishments such as seminaries providing religious instruction.

The ESF at Amman training centre provided in service training to 644 UNRWA teachers, including 212 women, and pre service teacher education to 347 secondary school graduates, including 292 women.

Funding has been committed to provide universal access to breakfast programs for elementary school children.

Career guidance for preparatory and secondary pupils was provided in each field, in cooperation with host authorities.

UNRWA continued to provide specially tailored programmes aimed at maintaining standards and improving the achievement levels of pupils in Agency schools.

Special educational programmes for students with mental development disorders are planned for a period of 9 years.

A number of schemes and programmes of grants and scholarships for male and female students are available both in private and public sector.

In 2004, for example, 1.4 million students benefited from school feeding programmes. In 2005, the aim is to increase this figure to over 2 million.

Primary school fees and uniforms had been abolished and school books were supplied free, generating an increase in girls' school attendance.

The Institute also provides supervision for master of science and Ph.D. students, and several of the Fellows at UNU IIST from China spent their period of study at the Institute as Ph.D. interns.

Essentially, ASM was founded to provide a basis for multi disciplinary approaches to spaceflight bio medical research.

Please provide information on the percentage of enrolment of girls and boys in the primary school and drop out rates respectively, both in urban and rural areas.

As explained below, study grants are provided for students admitted to a Danish institution of education.