India has over 1 million children out of school: UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on 26th June 2014 released a report. The report released that around 58 million children aged 6 to 11 are still out of school. The data was presented by the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, at a press conference in Brussels, France. The conference was organized by the Global Partnership for Education. The new global out-of-school figures are produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The new figures showed that around 43% of those out of school are unlikely ever to set foot in a classroom if current trends continue. Specifically, around 15 million girls and 10 million boys will not ever get opportunity to study as per the report.
The report mentioned about the success of 17 countries that have reduced their out-of-school populations by almost 90 per cent in a little over a decade which highlights that positive change is possible. These countries have invested in positive actions such as abolishing school fees, introducing more relevant curricula and providing financial support to struggling families. The lack of global progress is largely due to high population growth in sub-Saharan Africa, now home to more than 30 million out-of-school children. Across the region, more than one in three children who entered the educational system in 2012 will leave before reaching the last grade of primary school.