• Free primary-school education would not be available, as it now is, to more than 7m children.

    ECONOMIST: Uganda

  • She has watched as Hermannsburg's primary-school attendance rate almost doubled, to 80%, since it started.

    ECONOMIST: Australia's aborigines

  • Forty percent of the world's out-of-school kids of primary-school age live today in conflict-affected countries.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • And it also says it will abolish primary-school fees for all children in rural areas by 2007.

    ECONOMIST: Reforms to keep things the same

  • In Brazil, for example, 24 percent of primary-school pupils and 18 percent of secondary students are repeaters.

    UNESCO: HIGH DROP OUT AND REPETITION RATES SHOW QUALITY TO BE A CONCERN IN LATIN AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEMS

  • Ms Mayawati, a former primary-school teacher, is known for her love of diamonds and dalit-sized garlands of banknotes.

    ECONOMIST: India's languishing countryside

  • Raised by two primary-school-teacher parents who separated when he was very young, the convivial Mateschitz took ten years to get through college.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But then it turned out that several had criminal records, three had filed for bankruptcy, and one had barely a primary-school education.

    ECONOMIST: Baltimore��s election

  • Mr Galton reckons that 35% of the primary-school day is now spent on whole-class teaching, up from 15% a few years ago.

    ECONOMIST: Plowden��s progress

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

    ECONOMIST: Pakistan

  • Today, 85% of primary-school children are taught at least partly in Corsican.

    ECONOMIST: Corsica

  • Crossbencher Lord Northbourne introduced an amendment to the bill outlining parents' responsibility to promote their children's "personal, social and emotional development" before they reach primary-school age.

    BBC: Sex education under fire in the Lords

  • The PAEMST award recognizes outstanding primary-school math and science teachers and is administered by the National Science Foundation on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

    WHITEHOUSE: Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog

  • Last month primary-school children in Inverness became concerned when a red kite whose movements they had been watching over the internet via a satellite-linked tag on the bird stopped moving.

    ECONOMIST: Technology to the rescue

  • Even the youngest Kenyans are affected: people in Nairobi were stunned in June when primary-school pupils went on a rampage for several hours, stoning cars and blocking roads.

    ECONOMIST: Kenyan gloom | The

  • Since Mr Museveni made a speech strongly attacking condoms last year, say campaigners, primary-school children are no longer taught about condoms, which are no longer prominent in public advertisements.

    ECONOMIST: Uganda

  • Nay, plenty of public-sector workers such as primary-school teachers, nurses, policemen or train drivers can retire on full pension at the age of 55, or in some cases even 50.

    ECONOMIST: French pensions reform

  • One of Mr Souza's useful innovations was Fundef, a federal subsidy to raise teachers' pay and other primary-school spending in areas where they were dismally low, principally in the poor north-east.

    ECONOMIST: Start at the beginning

  • In Worldreader's first test, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development at six schools in Ghana starting in 2010, the group found that primary-school students who got Kindles increased their performance on standardized reading tests from about 13% to 16%.

    WSJ: Worldreader: An E-Book Revolution for Africa?

  • While the views of panellists varied widely on the best ways to improve and enhance education, they all agreed that broadband could address educational challenges in a world where 61 million children of primary-school age are not in school, 1.7 million extra teachers are needed and 775 million people, mostly women, are illiterate.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • Given that limited access to quality ECE has negative effects on child development which, in turn, undermines child performance at primary and post-primary school, The Mother-Child Home Education Programme (MOCEP) was initiated in 2000 to empower poor families to provide early childhood literacy training to their children through a home-based intergenerational literacy training approach.

    UNESCO: The Mother-Child Home Education Programme (MOCEP)

  • In Tanzania, less than half of all primary school-aged children were in school at the beginning of the decade.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

  • And girls account for 53 % of the 67 million primary-age school children around the world who are not receiving the education to which they have a right.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN BRASILIA

  • Thirty-nine primary school children received a fixed-term exclusion, along with some 753 secondary school children between 2006 and 2012.

    BBC: Boy crying

  • The forthcoming UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report estimates that some 61 million primary school - age children still have no access to school, while 250 million children who should have reached fourth grade cannot read or write whether they are in school or not.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • We have seen a sharp decrease in malaria and measles deaths across the continent -- vital gains in primary school enrollment -- marked improvements in child health.

    UN: Secretary-General

  • The program administered by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the State Department is a hands-on, primary and secondary school-based, science and education program that facilitates collaboration among students, teachers, and scientists around the world as they perform inquiry-based investigations of the environment and Earth systems.

    WHITEHOUSE: Ask Dr. H: "How Can Kids Apply Their Ingenuity to Global Challenges?" | The White House

  • In all countries surveyed at least 80 percent of primary school-age children are enrolled in primary education.

    UNESCO: HIGH DROP OUT AND REPETITION RATES SHOW QUALITY TO BE A CONCERN IN LATIN AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEMS

  • Conducted by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, the survey involved a self-completion questionnaire given to more than 6, 000 post-primary school children in 62 schools.

    BBC: Report highlights pupils' attitudes

  • Instead the authors recommend that "policymakers should concentrate on educational reforms in primary and pre-school" and want more effort made to raise the basic skills of disadvantaged groups.

    BBC: Top maths pupils 'fail to keep up with world's best'

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