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These Victorian legacies include: reliance on the generalist class teacher rather than specialist subject teachers, lower per pupil funding than in secondary schools, lower status for primary school teachers, a formal education starting age of five, and long summer holidays which are left over from the days when children were needed to bring in the harvest.
BBC: All change for primary schools?
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It shows that young people need the skills taught at primary and lower secondary school to find decent jobs.
UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES
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It shows that young people need the skills taught at primary and lower secondary school to find decent jobs.. In sub-Saharan Africa, about 30 million children are still missing out on primary school and 22 million teenagers are out of secondary school, missing out on vital skills for future employment.
UNESCO: One third of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa fail to complete primary school and lack skills for work | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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The Garstang Community Primary School's lower ground classrooms were flooded with more than 75mm of water.
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Most of them in a context of an expanded vision of basic education for all that should go from one year of pre-primary across to the lower secondary school cycle.
UNESCO: EDUCATION
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Yet millions of young people in the regions have not completed primary education, and millions more have never been to lower secondary school.
UNESCO: Almost four million young people in Central Asia and Central and Eastern Europe fail to complete primary | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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Yet millions of young people in the region have not completed primary education, and millions more have never been to lower secondary school.
UNESCO: One third of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa fail to complete primary school and lack skills for work | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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Yet millions of young people in the region have not completed primary education, and twenty eight million more have never been to lower secondary school.
UNESCO: EDUCATION FIRST
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Julie Frost, who teaches at Godwin Primary school in London, was impressed by what she saw of the lower stream boys.
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Yet a child in the last grade of primary only has at best a 75% chance of making the transition to lower secondary school in about 20 countries around the world, the overwhelming majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
UNESCO: EDUCATION