Five things you need to know this week about global education

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A woman who celebrates her 99th birthday today has told how she went back to school in Kenya’s Rift Valley to set a good example for her great-grandchildren.

Priscilla Sitienei, who is in her sixth year at primary school, wears the same school uniform of grey dress and green sweater as other students.

Kenya’s government began subsidising the cost of primary schooling in 2003, allowing some older people who missed out on education in their younger days to revive their dreams.

A film about Priscilla’s education journey – titled Gogo after the local word for grandmother – will be launched soon in New York. She said she enjoys other school activities such as physical education classes, adding: “I get to jump around, even though not as much as they can do – but I at least move my body.”