Children at risk of dropping out in the last primary school cycle and those who work

Non schoolgoing children

About 115 million primary school age children are not attending school, and girls are disproportionately excluded.

The Government should increase efforts to ensure that children, particularly girls, are able to attend school and that the percentage of girls attending secondary school is increased.

1974 1996 Professor of Child Psychiatry, Chief of The Division of Child Psychiatry at the Medical School of Hacettepe University, Ankara

While a significant campaign to increase primary school enrolment has raised the enrolment of girls to almost 40 per cent, compared to 67 per cent for boys, overall school enrolment among girls remains among the lowest in the world, with less than 10 per cent of girls enrolled in secondary school.

A significant push to increase primary school enrolments has raised the enrolment of boys to 67 per cent and girls to almost 40 per cent.

(a) Pre school education, between the ages of three and five.

Children started to go to school.

Schools for retarded children

The rate of school drop outs at the primary school age is over 20 per cent.

Girls still account for 57 of the out of school children of primary school age world wide.

So, now you get these pictures you get up in the morning, and you see the kids in Nigeria and you see them in Uruguay with their computers, and in Mongolia.

Twenty three UNRWA pupils were killed and 39 were injured during the reporting period.

In 1994, the net national enrolment rate in the basic cycle was 20.59 per cent (21.44 per cent for boys and 19.73 per cent for girls).

Girl children are still unable to go to school.

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However, school enrolment among Afghan girls remains among the lowest in the world, with less than 10 percent of girls enrolled in secondary school.

Children Ward Guayaquil (school age)

Schools for children with impaired hearing

Schools for children with impaired eyesight

Specialized schools for physically and mentally disabled children

and children with social problems

Raise the standard of children apos s literature.

Table 66. Teaching of a native language in primary and post primary

a Excluding an estimated 106,131 refugee pupils attending government and private elementary and preparatory schools, and 60,551 refugee students attending government and private secondary schools, and including 38,536 non refugee children attending UNRWA schools.

Ensuring that all students complete first grade.

These and other problems result in high dropout rates among indigenous children, especially girls, and a progressive decrease in the number of indigenous students in secondary and higher education.

There are 42 children and nine teachers in the local school.

In several African countries, girls' education clubs help to enrol out of school girls and encourage completion.

The Children's Health Care Programme includes measures for the benefit of newborn infants, nursing and pre school children and school children up to the age of nine.

The percentage of indigenous children enrolled in primary school is 11.3, while the national enrolment rate is 85 per cent.

Early learning and child care

The adults take turns teaching the children.

(f) To ensure girls' enrolment in schools

(a) National preschool health day

But low income countries are still far from meeting the goal of ensuring that all children complete primary school only 63 of children in those countries achieve that milestone. Poor children, children with disabilities, girls, and ethnic minorities still face daunting barriers to education.

The rate of annual enrolment in primary and secondary education is very low and not commensurate with the actual population of children, who constitute over half of the population of Sierra Leone.

(v) Increasing efforts to reduce and eliminate women's illiteracy ensuring the full enrolment and retention of girls in primary education, increasing girls' attendance in secondary schools and higher education training of female teachers and eliminating discrimination against girls in schools

Over 100,000 children learn science this way.

b Including children under 1 year of age and students studying away from home.

(d) School affairs, in particular the rights of handicapped children in school.

In Cuba, 100 per cent of children had access to all health care services, while 99.4 per cent of primary school age children attended school, including those receiving special education, benefiting from a pupil teacher ratio of 20 to 1.

UNICEF assisted early learning programmes in some 53 countries specifically supported girls' preparation for school.