“Massive" educational deprivation continues to plague sub-Saharan Africa, South African Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said, as reported by the Mail and Guardian. "Despite country reports of progress, it is clear that an extraordinary effort will be required to ensure that all countries are directly assisted to succeed," she told the 15th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers in Edinburgh, Scotland. In South Africa, as in most of Africa, boys are pressured into dropping out of school to earn money for their families, while pregnancy is the main reason girls leave school.