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Minister said only 120,000 pupils passed South Africa’s 2020 matric exams? No, results not yet released

European Union

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kankara

No, European Union didn’t praise Nigeria’s federal government for rescue of Kankara schoolboys

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South Africa

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No, grade 12 students in South Africa won’t have 5% added to marks

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How many students have benefitted from free secondary education in Ghana?

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Mid-Year Review of the Budget Statement and Economic Policy 2020

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How many students have benefitted from free secondary education in Ghana?

To date some 1,199,750 Senior High School students in Ghana have benefited from a free senior high school social intervention programme rolled out by the government in 2017.The programme, Free Senior High School (SHS), is meant to extend guaranteed access to free quality education for all children…

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No full South African matric rewrite due to paper leaks, varsity acceptance unchanged

Some matric exams were leaked in late November 2020. But there's no truth to social media claims that final-year high school students will h...

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#EndSARS protests: Comparing Nigeria’s health and education spending to cost of lawmaker upkeep

During recent protests in Nigeria, social media users compared the cost of the national assembly to the health and education budgets.

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Where does Kenya rank based on human capital the average child can expect to achieve?

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World Bank

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Where does Kenya rank based on human capital the average child can expect to achieve?

The World Bank’s Human Capital Index “measures the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18”. It expresses this as a value between zero and one.

An economy in which the average worker achieves both full health and full education potential will score a value…

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health

Where does Nigeria rank based on human capital the average child can expect to achieve?

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World Bank

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Where does Nigeria rank based on human capital the average child can expect to achieve?

The World Bank’s Human Capital Index measures “the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18”. It expresses this as a value between zero and one.

An economy in which the average worker achieves both full health and full education potential will score a value…

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health

Where does South Africa rank based on the human capital the average child can expect to achieve?

Source

World Bank

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Where does South Africa rank based on the human capital the average child can expect to achieve?

The World Bank’s 2018 human capital index ranks the country 126th out of 157 economies. The index measures “the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18” and expresses this as a value between zero and one.South Africa scored 0.41. “An economy in which the…

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Where does Zimbabwe rank based on the human capital the average child can expect to achieve?

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World Bank

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Where does Zimbabwe rank based on the human capital the average child can expect to achieve?

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Where does Ghana rank based on the human capital the average child can expect to achieve?

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World Bank

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Where does Ghana rank based on the human capital the average child can expect to achieve?

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Sex & gender

How many girls are out of school in Nigeria?

Source

Unesco Institute for Statistics

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How many girls are out of school in Nigeria?

In 2014, it was estimated that 8.7 million Nigerian children of official primary school age (6 to 11 years) had not been in school in 2010. Of these, 57% were estimated to be girls.

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