Introduction
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UNICEF partners with government and non-governmental organisations (NGO) to ensure that the basic learning needs and potential of all child ren are met, and to build the capacity of schools and authorities to assist children, especially those from vulnerable communities.
Millennium Development Goal 2
Increase the completion rate in compulsory education
- Compulsory education was extended from eight to ten years as of 2003;
- Some 89% of primary school entrants reached grade 5 in 2004;
- Some 86% of children reached grade 5 in rural areas, where there are higher drop-out rates, especially among children from poor communities, those whose parents migrated abroad, children part of the labour force, mothers under the age of 18, and Roma children;
- Some estimates indicate that 26% of Roma children aged 8-16 did not attend school in 2004.
