Every third Roma school-age child does not attend primary education (attendance rates: 71% male and 68% female); and only 1 in 4 Roma children attend secondary school (27% male and 18% female).
49 For example, in 2005 (the most recent year for which subnational net primary school attendance figures are available), the reported net attendance in Nyando District Nyanza Provincee) was greater than 90% for both men and women, while in Turkana District (Rift Valley Province) the levels were between 30% and 40%.
Primary school attendance for children ages five through nine became free where available.
Debt relief works -- for example, primary school attendance nearly doubled in Uganda after the country dropped its school fees.
In the past decade, primary school attendance has trebled, child mortality has halved and parliament has achieved the highest proportion of female members in the world.
At Hollinsclough primary, the attendance question is solved by putting the absence down as "educated offsite", so it doesn't affect their absence rate.
Although primary school attendance is free and Tanzania raised enrolment levels from 54.2% in 1990 to 95.4% in 2010, classroom conditions are basic and stretched.
Police call-outs have dropped by almost half, from 80 in 2007-08 to 47 in 2011-12, and primary school attendance has reached 100%.
I'm pleased that International Women's Day 2016, which we celebrated in solidarity with our global partners earlier this month, gives us a chance to reflect on the dramatic progress over the past few years in areas like girls' primary school attendance and women's health.
Net primary school attendance has risen to 87 per cent.
