"Rights groups and activists have welcomed Bangladesh's decision to allow Rohingya children living in sprawling refugee camps to receive a formal education, calling it a "positive step". To date, only one-third of Rohingya child refugees - who fled a brutal 2017 crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar - are able to access a primary education through temporary learning centres run by international agencies. More: Rohingya facing 'lost generation' of children out of school A boy who can sing: The life of a Rohingya child refugee Akter, 20, expelled from university for being Rohingya Starting in April, a pilot programme led by the UNICEF and Bangladesh government will initially enrol 10,000 Rohingya boys and girls up to the age of 14 in the sixth to ninth grades, where they will be taught the Myanmar school curriculum and receive skills training, officials said on Wednesday. "It is a great news for us," Nay San Lwin, co-founder of Free Rohingya Coalition, told Al Jazeera. "As of now, at least the children can study up to grade 9 and youth can join skill trainings," he said. Primary education is provided to more than 145,000 children by a network of 1,600 UNICEF-run small learning centres in the refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh, where more than one million Rohingya, nearly half of whom are children, have been living since they fled persecution in Myanmar..."