sojourn, pre school education, and preventive health care for pre school children and the sojourn of children of primary school age until they reach the age of ten,

About 115 million primary school age children are not attending school, and girls are disproportionately excluded.

After non compulsory pre school education, children enter the nine year primary school at the age of six.

Worldwide, 121 million primary school age children were not enrolled in school 65 million were girls and 56 million boys.

Despite this progress, roughly 121 million children of primary and lower secondary school age remain out of school. Of the 58 million not in primary school, about 31 million are girls.

Among primary school age children (ages 6 to 12), coverage is almost universal however there is still a need to incorporate 5 million children in the primary education system.

Despite good progress towards these goals and targets, some 115 million primary school age children (62 million girls) were out of school in 2001.

It is compulsory for children who have reached 7 years of age to enter grade 1 of primary school.

Moreover, the Complementary Rapid Education for Primary Schools programme, which enables over age children to complete a shortened primary school programme, is in operation in several districts.

Millions of children will be beyond the age of primary school enrolment when the necessary financial support for education is delivered.

Nearly 100 per cent of the children in other age brackets, however, were enrolled in school 69,194 in preschool (3 to 6 years of age), 103,359 in primary school (7 to 12 years of age), 175,860 in lower secondary school (13 to 15 years of age) and 107,622 in upper secondary school (16 to 18 years of age).

UNICEF's estimation is that in developing countries 20 of the children of primary school age do not attend school, and another 30 drop out by grade 4.

Also, there are 1,306 Public Daycare Centres with a capacity for 78,000 children (aged from 2 ½ years to their enrolment to primary school) and 132 Daycare Centres for infants and children, with a capacity of 10,000 children, aged from 8 months to their age of enrolment to primary school.

Almost half of children do not finish primary school.

Children begin school at the age of six.

Almost 99 of children that enroll in first grade of primary school successfully reach the fifth grade of primary school.

The users included primary school children to middle aged adults.

There are 121 million children of primary school age who are not in school, and more than half of these are girls most of whom will never learn to read or write.

The Senegalese government spends about 40 of the state budget on education and provides free public schooling to almost 85 of all primary school age children.

Children enroll at primary school when they turn five years old.

Children between the ages of 5 and 12 attend primary school.

In spite of this, more than 30,000 boys and girls of primary school age are not currently enrolled in school.

More children of school going age are entering school, as reflected by the modest gain in the primary school gross enrolment rate, which increased from 75.7 per cent in 1999 to 79.5 per cent in 2002 and 81.1 in 2003.

For children disturbed in development, primary education lasts from age 7 to 15.

Primary school Methodist Primary School, Ogui, Enugu 1963 1966.

We know that the full benefit of primary school is realized only when children go on to secondary school.

As a result, hundreds of secondary school students have been trained to pass on information to primary school children.

In 2000, over 100 million primary school age children all over the world were still not in education, and over 100 million young people lacked effective reading and writing skills.

For instance, 55 per cent of children of primary school age in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are out of the education system as a result of the war.

In Wales, all children are taught Welsh from the first year of primary school.

What happens if parents or guardians do not send their school age children to school is there any punishment?

Ms. Atabay (Turkey) said that in the 2002 2003 academic year, the Government had provided free textbooks to students from poor families and had established primary boarding schools for children from poor families and primary school age children in villages and settlements that did not have any schools.

By contrast, Pakistan, spends just 8 and six million primary age children have no public schooling.

Yet, in Morocco, for example, more than 80 of school children complete primary school, but fewer than 20 have mastered the material.

WFP is also supporting health efforts towards education through its school feeding programme, which provides mid morning snacks to primary school children.

Poverty has deprived more than 100 million children of the opportunity of going to primary school.

This research has gathered information on the diet of school age children in Republika Srpska.

Children in a classroom at Thuong Nong Primary School, Tam Nong District, Phu Tho Province in Vietnam.

Indeed, given that primary education was compulsory, families that prevented their children from attending school were fined.

There are six public primary schools, one private assisted primary school and one private school.

Students received 700g of rice per day secondary school pupils, 600g elementary school pupils, 500g children between 1 and 2 years of age, 200g and children younger than 1,100g.

Enrolment of school age ethnic minority children has increased to between 85 and 90 per cent.

The matter has been given serious consideration and it is expected that with the implementation of the compulsory education (primary level) policy, the girl child would remain in school up to the age of 10 years (Children are normally admitted at the age of 5).

Completed primary school during the Nigerian Civil War at St. Paul's Primary School, Nkwerre 1967 1970

The Hong Kong Education Bureau is planning to make patriotic education compulsory for primary and secondary school children.