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EDUCATION Primary Education
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More and more children, youth and adults have a chance to learn and the number of children in school continues to grow. Today 680 million children are enrolled in primary schools around the world. Yet, a lot more still needs to be done. More than 100 million children, over half of them girls, never get a chance to see the inside of a classroom. Furthermore, the poor quality of education provided, resulting from irrelevant and obsolete curricula, overcrowded classrooms, untrained teachers, etc., cause high dropout and incompletion rates. More
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IBE Databanks.
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Knowledge resources.
The Information Programmes and Services (IPS) serves as a gateway to information resources on education, science and social sciences, culture, and communication/ informatics.
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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
The statistical branch of UNESCO. It was established in July 1999 in order to meet the growing needs of UNESCO Member States and the international community for a wider range of policy-relevant, timely, and reliable statistics in the fields of education, science and technology, culture and communication.
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  UNESCO & Primary Education
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The right to education
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Joint Programme for the Promotion of Basic Education for All Malagasy Children in Madagascar
Learning to read and write in a month!