Concerns were also highlighted that more than half of teachers asked thought that "profiling" of P7 pupils - which is designed to help children in their transition to secondary school - was "not very useful".

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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.

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In 2004, for example, only 37.4% of primary school graduates made the transition from primary to secondary general education.

UNESCO: Family Basic Education (FABE)

These secondary market transactions could quickly inject real capacity into the market and thus smooth the transition to a future where auctioned spectrum, technology, and small cells yield more bandwidth.

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Their remit includes the question of how well the final years of secondary school provide for those who are not going to university, and how employers could better support the transition into work.

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