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UN launches project to achieve universal primary education in Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Equatorial Guinea have launched a scheme to train enough teachers so that every child in the African country can finish primary school by 2010.
Over the next four years the UNDP and Equatorial Guinea have promised to spend $5.2 million training 2,000 teachers, 45 school inspectors and 36 education advisers as part of a scheme dubbed “Education for All,” the agency said yesterday.
Currently only half of Equatorial Guinea’s primary school-age children attend one of its 884 primary schools. One in five pupils drops out each year and half the children in school are older than their grade level.