Furthermore, we find that English skills do not raise wages at all for younger men who have not completed their secondary school education.
In Indonesia, child vaccination rates are 19% when mothers have no education and 68 % when mothers have at least secondary school education.
Women are succeeding (and in many cases outperforming men) in primary school, secondary school and higher education.
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When we look beyond the issue of accessibility to the quality of education our children receive -- after all it should be fit for purpose -- the region has among the lowest education requirements for teachers, with 50% of countries requiring lower secondary school teachers to have completed no higher than a secondary education (so teachers have barely more education that their students).
"The project will significantly improve the performance of girls in science subjects, which will facilitate their access to secondary education (high school), " says Hassana Alidou, Chief of Section, Basic to Higher Education and Learning in UNESCO Dakar.
Nevertheless, more than 21.6 million children of lower secondary school age remain excluded from education across the region and many will never even spend a day in school.
Over the entire region of Northern America and Western Europe, there are more than half a million adolescents of lower secondary school age who are not in education.
Inaugurated by Anshu Vaish, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, the conference explored ways to increase access to sustainable and learner-centred quality education and equip secondary school students with vocational skills through open distance learning.
Nationwide, women comprised 86 percent of elementary teachers in the 2010-2011 school year, according to the National Education Association, compared to 62 percent of secondary school teachers.
Ministers want to be able to show children's progress from when they start secondary school to the end of their compulsory education.
Coventry City Council said while there were still improvements to be made at its primary schools, some 85% of secondary school pupils received a good or outstanding education, well above the national average of 71%.
Unison said it would ballot its members in the pre-school, nursery, primary and secondary education sectors on industrial action in response to the cuts.
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The levels of delay detected in primary education indicate that many pupils are still attending primary education when they have reached secondary school age.
If the students wish to pursue a certificate to confirm that they have achieved the official level of primary or basic education (three years of secondary school), they are able to sit an exam to obtain this qualification whilst attending the programme.
Mary Margaret Kennedy lately principal teacher of chemistry, Holyrood Secondary School (Glasgow) - For services to Education in Glasgow.
Yet progress has been slow: of the relevant age-groups, only 85%, at the latest count, were at primary school, 36% at secondary school, with fewer than 20% in higher education.
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One of those opinions confirms the conventional wisdom that U.S. higher education, especially at our elite research universities, is world class while primary and secondary education, especially in our big city school systems, are lagging badly.
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He and father Alan, mum Lindsay and sister Danielle had switched to the Laurencekirk area from Muthill, after which he attended Fettercairn Primary School and Mearns Academy before completing his secondary education at Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen.
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.
These days, public investment in education needs to go beyond primary and secondary school.
Only 50% of China's middle-school graduates now go on to receive any secondary education.
In 2004, for example, only 37.4% of primary school graduates made the transition from primary to secondary general education.
Slough Sikh Education Trust has secured a site for Khalsa Secondary School in Stoke Poges.
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According to a recent study, the Functional Adult Literacy Programme (FALP) which endeavoured to promote youth and adult functional literacy, was only accessible to about 5% of the potential beneficiaries while only about 37.4% of children who completed primary school under the UPE programme were able to access secondary education.
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.
As they work their way through primary education and on into basic secondary, education delay increases the probability of students dropping out of school.
In East Asia and the Pacific, despite the fast progress in terms of secondary education enrolment, 10 million teenagers are still out of school, missing out on vital skills for future employment.
Yet millions of young people in the regions have not completed primary education, and millions more have never been to lower secondary school.
Yet millions of young people in the region have not completed primary education, and millions more have never been to lower secondary school.
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