This document discusses progress towards the UN Millennium Development Goal of ensuring all children complete primary schooling by 2015. While great progress has been made in many countries, this target is unlikely to be met globally. The number of out of school children has declined but was still around 93 million in 2005-2006. Barriers to achieving universal primary education include high dropout rates in Africa, families being unable to afford school fees of around $3 per year, and around 41 million children remaining out of school in sub-Saharan Africa and 31.5 million in South Asia.

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2. TARGET
Ensure that by 2015, children everywhere boys and girls alike will be
able to complete a full course of primary schooling

3. WILL THIS MDG BE MET?
• Despite great progress in many countries this target is unlikely to be
met. The rise of school enrolment has raised but is still not high
enough to have reached the target by 2015.
• To achieve the goal by the target date, all children at official entry
age for primary schooling would have had to be attending classes by
2009.
• At least one in four children of enrolment age was not attending
school in 2008. Proving that this target is unlikely to be met .

4. REASONS FOR THE GOAL NOT TO BE MET
• Drop out rates in Africa still remain high. More then 30% of primary
school students drop out before final grade.
• People cannot afford to send their children to school as they only
earn around 79cent a day and it costs three euro to enrol a child for
a year so three euro is near impossible to source and then the final
added cost of a uniform.
• The UN are trying to abolish school fees. Making it more possible for
children to attend.

5. PROGRESS:

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7. PRIMARY EDUCATION FOR ALL:
PROGRESS
More than 85 per cent of Primary-School-Age Children attend
school.
Attendance info based on household surveys show that the number of
children of primary school age who are out of school has declined
markedly in recent years.
(from 115 million in 2002 to 93 million in 2005–2006.
Many countries are close to delivering universal primary education.
In other countries and regions the task remains enormous, eg. in sub-
Saharan Africa, where around 41 million primary-school-age children are
out of school, and in South Asia, where 31.5 million remain out of school

8. NUMBER OF CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL HAS DROPPED
Both estimation methods show decline
Numbers (in millions) of primary-school-age children out of school
estimated using net enrolment data and combined net
enrolment/attendance data (2002 and 2005–2006