Wednesday, 25 January 2012

GIRLS STILL HINDERED BY HIGH DROPOUT RATE

While girls continued to show great competiveness against boys in Primary Leaving Examinations results released yesterday, high levels of dropouts emerged as a major challenge. Failure to complete and inability to compete or access to education opportunities are the major challenge.A report on regional free education tracking by the group Uwezo released last year found that 68 per cent of pupils who enroll in Primary One drop out before Primary Seven. That was a six per cent jump from 75 per cent for the previous year.

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