2009
DOI: 10.1080/13603110701201775
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Exclusion of indigenous children from primary education in the Rajshahi Division of northwestern Bangladesh

Abstract: Although education provision has recently improved in Bangladesh, the exclusion of children in the poorest families remains a pressing issue. Surveys in Bangladesh about school attendance have to date been confined to the dominant ethnic groups. Data are lacking for ethnic minorities such as indigenous children. To address this issue, we surveyed indigenous children's primary school attendance and dropout rates in northwestern Bangladesh during 2004. The results revealed that few indigenous children (22%) comp… Show more

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“…Around 80% of the older population of Bangladesh are suffering from some type of chronic condition [23][24][25][26]. Information on the health status of the indigenous population is scarce, but it is widely acknowledged that they are deprived of basic human rights [21,27] and have very limited access to health facilities compared to the general citizens [28]. Therefore, this study assumed that the proportion of those in the indigenous older population having a good health status and quality of life would stand at 15%.…”
Section: Sample and Sampling Techniquementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Around 80% of the older population of Bangladesh are suffering from some type of chronic condition [23][24][25][26]. Information on the health status of the indigenous population is scarce, but it is widely acknowledged that they are deprived of basic human rights [21,27] and have very limited access to health facilities compared to the general citizens [28]. Therefore, this study assumed that the proportion of those in the indigenous older population having a good health status and quality of life would stand at 15%.…”
Section: Sample and Sampling Techniquementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In schools, Santal children face discrimination and physical abuse from their teachers and classmates, e.g. Bengali classmates avoid sitting beside their Santal peers in classrooms, which results in dropouts from schools at a very young age (Samad, 2006;Sarker and Davey, 2009). Their lack of literacy is considered one of the major reasons for easy forgery and illegal dispossession by the ethnic majority popula-tion (Sarker and Davey, 2009).…”
Section: Background On Ethnic Groups In Bangladeshmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Bangladesh, a large number of children are still out of main stream primary education due to poor infrastructure of school and road communications. The non-government schools, funded by NGOs, have been created with the support of various agencies to improve educational provision (Sarker & Davey, 2009). In this situation, NGOs play a great role in Chalan beel area.…”
Section: Education For Chalan Beel 1 Childrenmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These being, primary school education, secondary school education, higher secondary school education and tertiary and higher education. Though the availability and accessability of primary education for every child is high on the global context (Sarker & Davey, 2009), access to and achieving the right to education for Bangladeshi primary school going students in remote area is still remaining a crucial challenge (UNICEF, 2014). Altogether, currently, there have almost 16.5 million primary school aged children (6-10 years) in Bangladesh.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%