The Cambridge Primary Review is an independent body which began its research on primary education in 2006.
Premji has the Azim Premji Foundation that works in the area of primary education.
Malawi has seen some success since free primary education was introduced there about 12 years ago.
The prize winner for Universal Primary Education applications was I-Learn by Swaroop John (Switzerland).
In 1997, for example, the government introduced Universal Primary Education (UPE) which provides free primary education.
It also plans to organize workshops and launch a comprehensive campaign to promote universal primary education.
These include cutting poverty in half, reducing child mortality by two-thirds and ensuring universal primary education.
By 2005, the net intake rate (NIR) in primary education had risen to 66%.
In 2008, 72 of 184 countries with data had not reached gender parity in primary education.
Twenty years on, countries have made historical advances, particularly in access to primary education.
The main share of public expenditure on education in most countries goes to primary education.
Progress includes advances in educational enrollment, with gender gaps in primary education closing in almost all countries.
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He said the aim would be to target the seventy-five million Commonwealth children without any primary education.
Some 35% in China and a stunning 70% in India have no more than a primary education.
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These teachers themselves were untrained and recruited without any preparation to provide primary education to the children.
In all countries surveyed at least 80 percent of primary school-age children are enrolled in primary education.
In Europe, for example, as many as 50 percent of Roma children fail to complete primary education.
According to UNESCO figures, only 6.9% of children complete primary education, and less than 2% finish secondary schooling.
Yet according to the report, public spending on primary education grew at a faster rate than primary enrolment.
Women with post-primary education are five times more likely than illiterate women to be educated on HIV prevention.
First, investing in education, particularly primary education, promotes lasting growth and, especially, advances the prospects of the poor.
Demonstrated experience in linking at least two of the following areas: early childhood care education, primary education, secondary education.
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Across the region, families are the largest private financers of education and provide 30% of all primary education resources.
This includes virtual parity between boys and girls in primary education and significant drops in child and maternal mortality.
The third broad theme of the Cambridge Review is that the "politicisation" of primary education has gone too far.
An estimated 1.7 million more teacher positions are required to reach the goals of Universal Primary Education by 2015.
Women with post primary education are five times more likely than illiterate women to be educated on HIV prevention.
There should be a sense of urgency in achieving the universal primary education target set by Unesco, he added.
For instance, campaigners often ask for more to be spent on primary education.
Mr Brown has been campaigning for the millennium goal of ensuring all children have access to primary education by 2015.
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