It is compulsory for children who have reached 7 years of age to enter grade 1 of primary school.

The Government ensures that child victims of an age to be subject to compulsory education return to school to continue their education.

The reasons of drop out are various leaving Estonia, reaching the age when school attendance is no longer compulsory, expulsion from school, financial reasons, death, family reasons and other reasons.

The Committee recommends that MSAR strengthen its efforts to provide free compulsory education to all school age children, including children of migrant workers.

By Ministerial Order, a school student's grant is given to families with children up to 16 years of age who attend public schools of compulsory education.

Education is compulsory for all children under 16 years of age.

The matter has been given serious consideration and it is expected that with the implementation of the compulsory education (primary level) policy, the girl child would remain in school up to the age of 10 years (Children are normally admitted at the age of 5).

Education is compulsory and free for children between 5 and 15 years of age.

Nearly 100 per cent of the children in other age brackets, however, were enrolled in school 69,194 in preschool (3 to 6 years of age), 103,359 in primary school (7 to 12 years of age), 175,860 in lower secondary school (13 to 15 years of age) and 107,622 in upper secondary school (16 to 18 years of age).

Education is free and compulsory for all children between 5 and 15 years of age.

sojourn, pre school education, and preventive health care for pre school children and the sojourn of children of primary school age until they reach the age of ten,

Recognizing that education was a key element in the promotion of children's rights, the Government had introduced a universal basic education programme which provided for compulsory and free education for all school age children up to junior secondary level.

Indeed, given that primary education was compulsory, families that prevented their children from attending school were fined.

Education is compulsory and free for all children between 5 and a half and 16 years of age.

About 115 million primary school age children are not attending school, and girls are disproportionately excluded.

A child entering school today will be my age in 2050.

Worldwide, 121 million primary school age children were not enrolled in school 65 million were girls and 56 million boys.

Recognition of the need to create a mechanism aimed at impelling governments to enact and enforce legislation making it compulsory for heads of low income and rural families to send their school age children of both sexes to school, and not to send them out to work before they have completed their primary education, with incentives designed to facilitate compliance by such families

(b) The Adoption of the Education Law (1995) establishing compulsory, free and guaranteed primary school and the Labour Act regulating child labour (1990)

The Brčko District Government, in accordance with the Law on Education in Primary and Secondary Schools of Brčko District, provides for primary and secondary education as compulsory and free of charge for all those obliged to attend the school the children from 6 to 15 years of age.

The closest school is in Mindzhevan, several kilometres away, but most school age children are sent to a charitable boarding school in Kapan where they live during the week.

Since 1 July 2003, the compulsory, generally established retirement age in the Republic of Tajikistan has been 63 for men and 58 for women.

Ms. Atabay (Turkey) said that education was compulsory until the age of 15, with possible attendance until 17, and that persons beyond that age could attend general, primary and secondary education courses open to them.

Despite good progress towards these goals and targets, some 115 million primary school age children (62 million girls) were out of school in 2001.

The Committee noted in this regard that, according to UNICEF, 39 per cent of girls who were of school age did not currently attend school or had dropped out of school.

Hard drinks are consumed by 12 per cent of the school age population (8.7 per cent at the age of 11, 14.3 per cent at the age of 13, and 13 per cent at the age of 15).

Ms. Shin said that although it was commendable that education was compulsory for all children up to the age of 16, the reality was quite different.

Enrolment of school age ethnic minority children has increased to between 85 and 90 per cent.

School attendance is very high in Aruba up to age 15, attendance is well above 95 .

She would also appreciate information on non formal continuing education possibilities for women past school age.

Similarly, states where birth rates fell earlier, such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu, are already enjoying shrinking school age populations, whereas school age numbers in Bihar will still be rising until around 2025. But the majority of children in Kerala and Tamil Nadu are already in school, while in Bihar they are not.

The ILO Convention (No. 138) concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment, 1973, promotes free and compulsory education of good quality up to the minimum age for entering into employment as a key element in the prevention of child labour.

UNICEF's estimation is that in developing countries 20 of the children of primary school age do not attend school, and another 30 drop out by grade 4.

Three of the four provinces of Pakistan i.e. Punjab, NWFP and Sindh have enacted the Compulsory Primary Education Act for boys and girls of age group (5 9).

(i) To adopt all necessary measures to close the gap between the school leaving age and the minimum age for employment, including by raising the minimum age for employment and or raising the school leaving age when necessary, and to ensure access to free basic education and, wherever possible and appropriate, vocational training for all children liberated from the worst forms of child labour

These children are more likely to start school later than the prescribed age, less likely to be developmentally ready or well prepared for school, and more prone to drop out or fail to achieve in school.

Of 204 countries and areas, 138 and 101, respectively, reported, at least once, the number of girls and boys, by age, enrolled in primary and secondary school between 1998 and 2001, while only about 40 countries or areas reported school attendance by sex and age.

Schooling has been extended to more than three quarters of the 285,000 school age children in the country.

This applies from 1 May of the school year in which the child reaches the age of four.

Parents are also obliged to make sure their child attends school during regular school hours until he or she has completed the education offered by a school for vocational education or a school for general secondary education, or has reached the age of 17.

Students received 700g of rice per day secondary school pupils, 600g elementary school pupils, 500g children between 1 and 2 years of age, 200g and children younger than 1,100g.

For young people from low income homes it is common to drop out of school at an early age.

Pre school education, that is not mandatory, has been established for children between one and six years of age.

Children of pre school age are not insured if their parent or custodian is not insured in any way.

Lowering the school entry age so that girls can start at six rather than seven or eight years old