Low school enrolment rates.

Source Household living standard Survey 1997 1998

Gross enrolment in primary schools now averages 99 per cent.

The adult literacy rate is now almost 95 , and secondary school enrollment rates are up to 80 .

In 2004 school enrollment was more than that of many other African countries.

In 1994 the net enrolment rate for boys was 75 per cent, compared with 67.1 per cent for girls.

7. Lowering the price of schooling

During the 2003 2004 school year, the net primary enrolment rate was 94.4 per cent, while the completion rate rose to 99.82 per cent.

Primary school enrolment in Kenya has also increased tremendously due to the implementation of free primary education programmes in the last two years.

Education The era of king Hussein of Jordan saw increased school enrollment rates, which resulted in a rapid rise in the literacy rate in Jordan.

Girl children are still unable to go to school.

Those programmes had helped increase enrolment figures and achieve a literacy rate of 92.5 per cent for boys and 87.9 per cent for girls.

As a result of the increased investment in girls' education, and greater parental awareness of the importance of educating girls, the literacy rate among women was 94 per cent, and women continued to outnumber men in terms of school enrolment.

Primary education enrolment is over 91.5 per cent.

Among the younger population, the proportion of literate women was almost equal to that of men.

For example, the schooling rate for girls with a disability aged 7 14 years old is 6 lower than that of not disabled girls of the same age.

These programs have been shown to increase enrollment and attendance.

Disparities in enrolment between urban and rural areas remain stark.

One knows, however, that this is directly linked to lack of schooling.

In rural Pakistan, remittances are associated with higher school enrollment, especially for girls.

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

However, these figures are very low compared with primary school enrolment rates, particularly in the north and north west (regions with predominantly indigenous populations) where enrolment in the basic and specialized cycles is below 15 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively.

They are not to be denied admission to or expelled from schools or training programs on the grounds of leprosy.

In Nicaragua, these programs have increased school enrollment rates by about 13 percentage points.

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

A survey conducted among primary school girls indicated that they wanted to attend secondary school.

The follow up indicators to target 3 indicate progress for the period 1990 2004. The most significant progress was achieved in access to primary education, as measured by the net enrolment rate, which rose from 71.1 per cent in 1994 to 92.3 per cent in 2004.

Primary school enrolment had increased to 86 per cent in the 2003 04 academic year although some gender disparity still existed, with enrolment rates for girls and boys being 83 per cent and 89 per cent respectively in 2003 2004.

In fact, the school enrolment rate is 20.63 per cent for girls and 36.21 per cent for boys.

However, school enrolment among Afghan girls remains among the lowest in the world, with less than 10 percent of girls enrolled in secondary school.

In 2002 the enrolment rate reached 50 per cent.

In 1996, the gross primary enrollment rate was 104 percent, and in 1995, the net primary enrollment rate was 86.9 percent.

The Secretary General reports that secondary school gross enrolments on a global level increased from 56 to 78 per cent in the last decade and that tertiary enrolment rates increased worldwide from 69 million in 1990 to 88 million in 1997.

She was also a staunch secularist who established a foundation to provide scholarships to young girls so they could attend school.

These programs have successfully increased secondary school enrollment in countries like Mexico, Ecuador, Bangladesh, and Cambodia.

(e) To increase enrolment rates and reduce repetition and dropout rates and ensure that all children have effective access to primary education free of charge

Net secondary enrollment rate was at 63 in 2005.

These programs have helped to increase school enrollment and attendance and they also have shown improvements in children's health conditions.

The Committee is also concerned that, owing to the entrance examination system, not all students are guaranteed entry into the free public secondary schools.

The absence of a residence permit deprives them of health and social services and prevents children from attending Israeli public schools.

Improving water and sanitation facilities in schools could help in reducing the current gender gap in school enrolment.

A significant push to increase primary school enrolments has raised the enrolment of boys to 67 per cent and girls to almost 40 per cent.

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

The demographic dispersion of indigenous peoples and the lack of adequate transport often makes it hard for children to attend the few schools that do exist in indigenous areas.

But simply narrowing the gaps in school enrollment rates and total years of schooling is not enough. Countries must also ensure the quality of their education systems a key challenge for the coming decades.