The reasons that explain why girls don’t get into secondary begin in primary school.
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Deep-seated cultural practices – such as female genital mutilation and child marriage – prevent girls from making progress in school.
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Disengagement from schooling puts students at a greater risk of permanently dropping out of school.
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Special steps need to be taken to blunt the impact of school closures, particuarly on girls.
Catholic secondary schools experienced significant growth prior to 2015, but since then, enrolments have stagnated.
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Australia is in the midst of a population boom. But Catholic school enrolments have been decreasing since 2013.
Secondary school students typically spend less time doing physical activity than they did in primary school.
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The transition from primary to secondary school can be tough for children socially and emotionally. Students also do less physical activity in secondary school, and need help with this transition too.
In Australia, around 41% of students go to private secondary schools.
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If we look at enrolment figures for public secondary schools, it’s untrue to say the steady drift towards private schools has been reversed.