FREE EDUCATION PLEASE Countries with charges for public primary education

Notice Anything?
Over 100 countries Don't offer free education at primary level. See a pattern?

Angola Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Rep. Chad Congo/Brazzaville Congo/Kinshasa Côte d‟Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Mozambique Namibia
Niger Sao Tomé & Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Swaziland Togo Zimbabwe

Governments rolling back charges
Burundi Gambia Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Nigeria Rwanda South Africa Tanzania Uganda Zambia

The Caribbean
Antigua & Barbuda Belize Grenada Guyana Haiti St Lucia St Vincent Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago


Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Bulgaria Croatia Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan
Macedonia Moldova Romania Russia Serbia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan
Externally funded education
Bosnia & Herzegovina Kosovo

Asia
Bhutan Burma/Myanmar Cambodia China Fiji Indonesia Laos Maldives Nepal Pakistan
Papua New Guinea Philippines Singapore Viet Nam

Externally funded education
Timor-Leste Governments rolling back charges Bangladesh India Malaysia Mongolia


Middle East and North Africa
Djibouti Egypt Iran Israel Jordan Lebanon Qatar Sudan Syria Tunisia UA Emirates Yemen

Externally funded education
Afghanistan Iraq Palestinian Territories

Latin America
Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua
Panama Paraguay Peru

Free Medicine Free Education

You may ask whats the reason I've been focusing on these items?

I'm trying to launch a business at the moment that will reach millions of people. Part of the business will raise awareness of charities and allows users to take part in a way that has never been done before.

So I was thinking who should I support what are the best ones to go for to start with etc.....then along comes the universe and guides me towards education and health care. So may be thats what I will start with. Of course I will also try and raise the awareness of holistic therapies at the same time.

Thankyou.

21 the movie. Should Education be free?

21 is a movie Staring Kevin Spacey its based on the 2002 nonfiction book (by Ben Mezrich) Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.

Its a good film and worth a watch. All though I thought for people who were that clever...get some better secret signals, not so obvious.

I'm picking this up as it's a similar theme to the free medicine story I mentioned in Hancock and the all heart campaign. In the film the genius student needed $300,000 for his education as a scholarships are very limited.

Would society be better off if students did not need to struggle to pay for their education or is it character building to have to do these things. Does it mean that students who really want it go for it and don't just stay in education because its easy?

May be more students would have more time to excel and develop existing interests while exploring new ones or having life experiences that could lead to great things for them. Instead they are waiting tables or serving drinks in a bar. In the film they explore this with a nice twist.

Should education be free? Its an open discussion comments thoughts please!

(note) without doubt i.e up until 16years old education should be free to every child on the planet no questions.

I am talking about further education, college, university or similar.