In addition, only 19 per cent Cambodians who attend primary school proceed to secondary school.

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Historically, children from the Fields have had the right to attend primary school in Pagford, a place of flower baskets and other middle-class comforts, and the town has also supported a drug-treatment clinic that serves the neighborhood.

NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch

Today nearly all children attend primary school.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Only 34 pupils attend Ripple Primary School, near Deal, and the local education authority has said keeping it open is not financially viable.

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As a result more than 30 students had to attend lessons at Tiantou Primary School.

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Alex and Daniel are still able to attend their local village primary school, thanks to one-to-one support and lots of understanding from teachers, but their mum is aware that she will soon have to look for a special needs school to educate them - and that is a scary prospect.

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It is estimated that every year about 7 million children fail to attend school or drop out of school before completing primary education, thus about 60 million Bangladeshis are functionally illiterate.

UNESCO: Ganokendra Model of Community Learning Centres

The mother-of four said she had two children of primary school age who could now not attend the same school, with the result that KCC had offered a taxi for her four-year-old - a suggestion she felt was unacceptable.

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Across Pakistan as a whole, only 52% of primary-school-age pupils attend school.

ECONOMIST: Pakistan

In light of the considerable number of pupils who do not manage to complete their entire primary education, the mobile library creates an incentive to attend school and the arrival of the bus is announced through a loudspeaker to inform the community.

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