Sentence examples for truancy from inspiring English sources

Truancy rates are rising.

Reprints Related topics EthiopiaAt the same time, school truancy is rising despite official efforts to boost education.

Miguel Brechner, the organiser, says it has brought home-computing to tens of thousands of poorer households, while also reducing truancy.

As attorney-general she championed the use of data and technology to track repeat offenders and figure out how to stop them from erring again.She has also commissioned reports on little-studied areas such as school truancy, which she believes eventually lands a lot of young people in jail.

By making teachers accountable to local governments, Bihar, India's most unlettered state, roughly halved its truancy rate last year.

In 1998, the government promised to cut truancy by a third.

His systems will give a far more precise picture of truancy rates, security problems, teachers' absences and incompetence and the way all these factors interact.

Each is home to rain-streaked concrete high-rise estates; multiple faiths, tongues and colours; and the usual cocktail of joblessness, broken families, truancy and drug-dealing.

The effect may seem Big Brotherish, but truancy in the civil service is appalling, and such monitoring is bound to boost attendance and productivity.

Those who misbehave (through truancy, vandalism and the like) will get fewer, or none.

The unit has latched on to three problems in particular: "sink" housing estates, rough sleeping and truancy.