A study released by the United Nations
International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), states that 98% of Sri
Lanka’s children of school going age attend schools and there are only 2% of
the children who do not attend schools.
The Study prepared by the UNICEF was
handed over to the Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardana at the Sri Lanka
Foundation Institute yesterday by the UNICEF’s Deputy Country Representative Ms
Antonia De Meo.
As per Ms. Antonia De Meo this is the
furst such study carried out by UNICEF in South Asia, which was started in
2010.
The study has revealed that that 98.2
per cent of boys and girls in the 5-14 age group (primary and lower secondary
levels) and 98.6 per cent in the urban sector, 98.3 per cent in the rural
sector are attending schools.
Addressing the function the Minister
of Education Bandula Gunawardena said Sri Lanka is the only country in the
SAARC region with such a high rate of children attending schools and the
government intends to make every child to attend school by 2015.
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