Welcoming the progress that has been made in in pre-primary education since 2000, Irina Bokova pointed out that nonetheless only 15 percent children are enrolled in pre-primary education in Sub-Saharan Africa, 19 percent in Arab States, 28 percent in Central Asia and 36 percent South and West Asia.
Participants firmly insisted on the need for a stronger focus on early childhood care and education, more and better qualified teachers, as well as reform of post-primary education, including technical and vocational training, and the need to concentrate more on all aspects of the quality of education.
Women with post-primary education are five times more likely than illiterate women to be educated on HIV prevention.
He noted that, in post-primary education, 26 of the 30 wards with the highest levels of absenteeism were in Protestant areas.
Although Peru offers free and compulsory pre-primary, primary and secondary education (i.e. up to 16 years), only 42.5% of the poor complete primary education, while 13.1% receive no formal education whatsoever.
Similarly, UNESCO noted that the net enrolment ratio (NER) in pre-primary education in 2005 for children aged 3 to 5 years was 46 per cent which suggest that well over half the pre-school aged population has no access to ECE.
In regard to education, the Director-General underlined the importance of responding to the need to support the education system expressed by the country, especially in terms of post-primary and higher education and the need to strengthen enrollment of girls at these levels.
After gaining independence from France in 1953, Cambodia made concerted efforts to promote universal access to education by the expanding the provision of pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary education across the country.
The Sejong Project will support TNCU s programme to improve the capacity of multi-lingual teachers, increase enrolment of pre- and primary education and enhance parents participation in education.
In all countries surveyed at least 80 percent of primary school-age children are enrolled in primary education.
Free primary-school education would not be available, as it now is, to more than 7m children.
Most commonly collected data are limited to health outcomes for children ages 0-3 and pre-primary and primary education indicators for older children.
But then it turned out that several had criminal records, three had filed for bankruptcy, and one had barely a primary-school education.
Many members of the Roma community are poorly educated - UN figures quoted by the Open Society Institute indicate that in 2005, 94% of the general Romanian population was in primary education (7 - 15), compared to 76% Roma, 69% in secondary education (16 -19) 17% Roma and 5% in tertiary education (1% Roma).
The prize winner for Universal Primary Education applications was I-Learn by Swaroop John (Switzerland).
He only got the chance when Kenya recently decided to make primary education free to everyone - and even then, Kimani had a bit of a fight on his hands to get accepted.
The Global Microscience Experiments Project is a hands-on science education project that gives primary and secondary school students as well as university students the opportunity to conduct practical work in physics, chemistry and biology, using kits that are veritable mini-laboratories.
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The Global Microscience Experiment Project is a hands-on science education project that gives primary and secondary school students ( in some countries university students as well) the opportunity to conduct practical work in physics, chemistry and biology, using kits that come with booklets describing possible scientific experiments.
After Bristol City Council bought the school site, in Westbury-on-Trym, Oasis Education was then given a one-year deal to run it as a primary school.
As highlighted in the Digest, secondary education costs more than primary education mostly because of the need for teachers trained to provide subject-specific instruction.
These include cutting poverty in half, reducing child mortality by two-thirds and ensuring universal primary education.
Enrolment in pre-primary, secondary and tertiary education has also grown by more than 60% during the same period.
So far, the EMIS has covered the sub-sectors of primary and secondary education.
There will be a knock-on further down the education system as primary level has to be toughened to meet the demands of secondary to in turn meet the demands of A-levels and so on.
America may boast highly efficient labour and capital markets, but these advantages are partly offset by poor primary and secondary education, run-down public infrastructure, and inadequate saving that makes the country dependent on foreign capital.
He said although the Millennium Development Goals - on relieving poverty and disease in the world's poorest nations - concentrated on advances in primary education, that would not be enough to create the skills necessary to transform economies.
The biggest cut is to the post-primary Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), where numbers accepted will drop by a fifth, from 290 to 234.
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Even though the federal government does have a role--we are a 9% investor--the primary policymakers and funders of education are in state and local government.
While making sure every child can go to school is an imperative in itself, achieving universal primary education would also bring about far-reaching development benefits.
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