The attainment gap between primary school pupils from the most and least deprived areas of Scotland appears to have widened during the Covid pandemic. New figures showed that literacy and numeracy ...
57 million children of primary school age were out of school. Among youth aged 15 to 24, the literacy rate has improved globally from 83 per cent to 91 per cent between 1990 and 2015, and the gap ...
And figures for both primary and secondary education show ... free school meals for less than 20% of their time at school had a learning gap of just under a year (11.3 months).
«These achievements in closing the gender gap in primary school enrollment are reflected in higher scores on the Global Gender Gap Index, moving from 0.85 in 2006 to 0.94 in 2020 (+0.09), and on ...