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BANGLADESH: Gender gap in schools |
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 19th January - Despite significant success in achieving gender parity in terms of enrolment and attendance at the primary and lower secondary schools in Bangladesh there are more than 2 million children still out of schools – half of them being girls.
"Only 50 percent of children enrolled in grade six reach grade 10, and only 40 percent of girls pass the secondary school final exams," Tasneem Athar, deputy director of the Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE)
The major challenges confronting Bangladesh in bringing children to school and retaining them particularly for girls is poverty, poor quality of education, inadequate budget, poor benefit package for teachers and a general feeling of insecurity within the family and community.
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Read more about CAMPE: www.campebd.org |
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