Thus, prompted by studies that investigated student views about future enrolment in upper secondary school science, and the continuing low enrolment of females in physics and advanced mathematics, our research investigated the views and experiences of female students currently taking secondary school physics.
By Daisy Serem NAKURU, KENYA, 13 February 2012: Just three years ago, the low enrolment of girls at Gilwadzi Friends Primary School in Western Kenya was worrying, with only four girls out of every 10 students.
A hypothesis was that the low enrolment of girls in COBET was a symptom of a cultural norm in society, where girls' education is given lower priority than boys' education.
UNICEF has just launched a new three year programme of cooperation with the Government of Afghanistan, aimed at tackling the high rates of child and maternal mortality, and low enrolment of girls in school, with an emphasis on reaching under-served provinces of the country where indicators are especially poor.
Collaboration, however, with stakeholders outside the education sector to address causes of low enrolment of girls in education is still at a very initial stage.
In January, UNICEF will begin a new three year programme of cooperation with the Government of Afghanistan, aimed at tackling the high rates of child and maternal mortality, and low enrolment of girls in school.
There were no differences in atherothrombosis rates by gender, possibly due to low enrolment of women in that study.
As indicated in Chapter Two of this report, the Ministry of Education and Culture (by then) in collaboration with Kuleana Centre for Children's Rights and UNICEF commissioned in 2001 a study to find out why there was low enrolment of girls than boys in COBET centres.
This study was based on a small sample of enrolled individuals, reflective of low enrolment rates at the population level.
Given the low enrolment ratio, the costs of achieving universal primary education in Sub-Saharan Africa are very substantial, equivalent to an additional allocation of approximately 0.7 per cent of GNP to primary education.
