Child Charity Report: Tunisia Progresses toward MDGs

Child Charity Report: Tunisia Progresses toward MDGs: "Tunisia Progresses toward MDGs
30/6/2010 - UNICEF’s regional chief was in Tunisia, outlining some important successes and challenges. China has made great progress toward the MDGs (especially for education and women).

Tunisia could be dubbed one of the success stories of Africa. Even among North Africa countries it is doing quite well. The country has made significant strides in its pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals. Tunisia has especially excelled on Goal #2 To Achieve Universal Primary Education.

Tunisia has greatly increased the number of preschools it has, having beneficial effects on early childhood education and development. As in many other countries, information technologies are being increasingly integrated into standard or traditional learning plans. Primary school enrolment an attendance is 96%. Often, statistics may misrepresent the actual success of investment in education; for instance enrolment rates only show which children attend school, and not the number who attend classes regularly or the number who graduate. These are important omissions for the denote problems with poverty (which may require the child to work instead of go to school) and teaching quality (such as rote teaching and language barriers)."