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Education of Disadvantaged Children in OIC:

The Key to Escape from Poverty

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difference). The gaps are smaller between primary aged children with HHwith primary education

versus children with HH with higher education (2-3 percentage points).

The disparities increase more significantly at secondary level. In 2012, in terms of attendance

rates for 12-15 year olds, there is almost a 16 percentage point difference between children in HH

where household head has no education (81.6%) and children with HH where household head

has higher educational attainment (97.2%).

With respect to completion rates of 8 years of schooling, the difference is of 17.5 percentage

points, with completion rates for children where household head has with no formal education at

only 80.9%.

These results point to an intergenerational

transmission of education (or low education) and

could be due to the circumstance of the household

head not having any formal education, acting as a

proxy for extreme poverty. In a country with high

literacy rates such as Jordan, having no formal

education, not even at primary level, is associated

with high incidence of poverty with consequent

higher pressures for older children to drop out of

school and work.

Disability.

The DHS 2012 does not offer numbers

on access to schooling for disabled children.

Generally speaking

, statistics on disabled children in

Jordan are incomplete for both Jordanians and

refugees

. According to MoNE statistics, 7,239

students with disabilities entered primary and

secondary education in 2011, of whom 3,640 were

male and 3,599 female

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and according to the

population census there is an overall 11% disability rate across the population in Jordan

(including both Jordanians and non-Jordanians), frommild to severe disability, though the census

did not go into detailed analyses of the background those reported disabled.

With an 11 percent disability rate coupled with the low numbers of teachers trained in inclusive

education, few specialised facilities in the country, and the already poor state of many schools in

Jordan (and thus unlikely to be accommodating to children with disabilities), it is likely safe to

state that disabled children are disproportionately affected by low schooling access rates

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NCHRD (2016)

Figure 48 Percentage of disabled

children among Syrian refugee groups in

Jordan

Source: JENA

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