Hugo Chavez Frias, president of Venezuela, said that the government established a new education system to provide more people with opportunities to learn. He clarified his stand to increase the state concern for education in the future.

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Ugandan president, said that the government would enforce the free education system for higher school students from this year.

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Nigerian president, declared that the government would channel huge funds into building a schoolhouse, a dormitory and a library of the university now under way in Bayelsa State.

Leonel Antonio Fernandez Reyna, president of Dominica, called upon the regional countries to pay bigger attention to education.

The Bolivian government adopted a new education law on Dec. 20 last year.

Ecuador built ten schools for the past four years, trained at least 20,000 teachers and supplied school things and uniforms to about one million students of higher educational institutions.

In Cuba the number of university graduates reached a total of one million by July last year after the victory of the revolution.

India officially put into force the law on compulsory education from April 1 last year. Under this law all the children of school age up to 14 receive free education regardless of social status and sex.

Zambia worked out a new curriculum for children to teach them how to speak and write in national language and actively introduced it to the field of primary education.