Little Or No Progress On Out-of-School Children

UNESCO warns that, without urgent action, 12 million children will never spend a day at school.

New data published last week by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) on the world’s out-of-school children reveals little or no progress over more than a decade. Roughly 258 million children, adolescents and youth were out of school in 2018; around one sixth of the global population of school-age children (six to 17 years old).

Even more worrying is the fact that unless urgent measures are taken, 12 million primary school age children will never set foot in a school…..……………………..