In much of this part of the world, 1 out of every 4 children do not go to primary school.

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Aid, too, could be better directed: only 15% of it is earmarked for education and health, and countries where fewest children go to primary school have had the biggest aid cuts this decade.

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He argued that existing legislation in this area focused on under-fives' participation in institutions such as nurseries or childcare centres, and that more needs to be done to encourage parents to give their children "a chance to get their foot on the bottom rung of education before they go to primary school".

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Phil Hindle said it was "really challenging" to get his six-year-old son Sam ready to go to Coten End Primary School, in Warwick, each morning and then to take four-year-old son Rowan to Emscote Primary School.

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These days, public investment in education needs to go beyond primary and secondary school.

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The funds will go to about 200 communities in which police agencies have "partnered" with a primary or secondary school to target a specific problem of crime or violence in and around the schools.

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Does the fact that there is a primary school in the neighbourhood mean that the socioeconomic condition of children in India today allows them to go to that school?

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While making sure every child can go to school is an imperative in itself, achieving universal primary education would also bring about far-reaching development benefits.

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Most of them in a context of an expanded vision of basic education for all that should go from one year of pre-primary across to the lower secondary school cycle.

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