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Challenges of Implementing Free Primary Education in Kenya: Assessment Report

UNESCO (UNESCO Nairobi Office, 2005)

The Free Primary Education (FPE) assessment study was carried out in 162 primary schools in Kenya in February 2004. The study covered nine sampled districts in five provinces. Eighteen schools were picked from each of the ...
Increasing Access and Participation of Pastoralist Communities in Primary Education in Kenya

Sifuna, Daniel N. (Springer, 2005)

This study shows how the provision of educational facilities in Kenya since the colonial era has been skewed in favour of densely populated agricultural communities. It analyses interventions to redress the resultant ...
Towards the Making of Education Policy in Kenya: Conclusions and Implications

Oduol, Truphena (Shannon Research Press, 2006)

This paper uses the SACMEQ II data to carry out an analysis of classroom context factors that accounted for student scores in reading and mathematics as well as a review of methods used to derive policies in Kenya in order ...
Policies on Free Primary and Secondary Education in East Africa: Retrospect and Prospect

Oketch, Moses; Rolleston, Caine (American Educational Research Association, 2007)

This chapter reviews the evolution of education policies in the East African region in a historical context. The focus is on the formulation of policies for access to primary and secondary education in Kenya, Uganda, and ...
Actualizing Free Primary Education in Kenya for Sustainable Development

Mathooko, Mbatha (The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2009)

The right to education is one of the basic human rights stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948. In Kenya, this right has recently been livened through the launch of the Free Primary education program ...
Educational policies and teacher practices in Kenya

Dahl, Kari K. B. (Copenhagen Business School, CBS, 2009)

The health situation in Kenya is one of the poorest in the world. The country registers values below all three WHO health-for-all targets (WHO 2006). Western Kenya is particularly affected with high HIV/AIDS, malaria and ...
Universalising primary education in Kenya: the elusive goal

Somerset, Anthony (Taylor & Francis, 2009)

Since Independence in 1963, Kenya has launched three Free Primary Education programmes: the first in 1974, the second in 1979 and the most recent in 2003. Using historical data, this paper first outlines each initiative ...
Mobile Pastoralists and Education: Strategic Options

Krätli, Saverio; Dyer, Caroline (International Institute for Environment and Development (UK), 2009)

Learners from nomadic pastoralist communities face peculiar difficulties in accessing and continuing with education programmes whose designs suit sedentary communities. Standard curriculum delivery services which are ...
Maternal Employment and Its Impact on Pre –Adolescent Social Adjustment in Selected Primary Schools in Nairobi

Mugambi, Doyne Kageni (Kenyatta University, 2009)

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of maternal employment on pre-adolescent social adjustment in Nairobi. It also investigated whether there was any gender difference in pre- adolescent social ...
A Study of the Effective Implementation of Ministry of Education Policy Guidelines for Free Primary Education in Lugari District, Western Province, Kenya

Waudo, Dayana Josephine (Kenyatta University, 2009)

From independence in 1963 to 1987, the Government subsidized primary education but in 1988 cost sharing was introduced. In 2003 the government reintroduced the policy of funding most of the cost for primary education to ...
Free Education in Kenya’s Public Primary Schools: Addressing the Challenges

Ogola, Fredrick O. (Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), 2010)

This study was designed to examine ways of overcoming the obstacles faced by FPE in Kenyan public schools. The study adopted ex-post facto research design. The target population of the study were the PPS pupils, teachers, ...
Free Primary Education Policy and Pupil School Mobility in Urban Kenya

Oketch, Moses; Mutisya, Maurice; Ngware, Moses; Ezeh, Alex C.; Epari, Charles (Elsevier, 2010)

This paper examines pupil school mobility in urban Kenya using African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) household survey data which contain information on pupil transfers between schools. The aim is to identify ...
Free Primary Education and After in Kenya: Enrolment impact, quality effects, and the transition to secondary school

Oketch, Moses; Somerseti, Anthony (CREATE, 2010)

Following on earlier work in which the national-level impact of the 2003 Free Primary Education programme and its two predecessors was explored, this study uses local-level information gathered during field visits to a ...
Free Primary Education in Kenya: An Impact Evaluation Using Propensity Score Methods

Muyanga, Milu; Olwande, John; Mueni, Esther; Wambugu, Stella (Springer, 2010)

This chapter attempts to evaluate the impact of the free primary education programme in Kenya, which is based on the premise that government intervention can lead to enhanced access to education especially by children from ...
Free Primary Education Still Excludes the Poorest of the Poor in Urban Kenya

Oketch, Moses; Ngware, Moses (Taylor & Francis, 2010)

The Kenyan government introduced free primary education in 2003 in order to universalise access to primary education. Although the policy allows universal coverage, it ought to benefit the poor most as they are the ones ...
Management of the Change Occasioned By Free Primary Education in Kakamega and Kajiado Districts, Kenya

Ogola, Martin O. (Kenyatta University, 2010)

The purposes of this study was to conduct an in-depth investigation into how primary schools are managing change with regard to Free Primary Education(FPE) in Kenya and from this, develop a framework for effective change ...
Teacher Training and Free Uniforms for HIV Prevention in Primary Schools in Kenya

Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael (Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), 2010)

The vast majority of HIV cases occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly 2 million people become infected with HIV/AIDS every year. One quarter of these new HIV infections are among people under 25, and almost all are due ...
Free Primary Education in Kenya and its challenges in fighting Illiteracy

Otike, Fredrick Wawire; Kiruki, Beatrice (International Knowledge Sharing Platform, 2011)

For a country to realize full economic potential education is paramount. A population with ability to read and write compounded with technology savvy is key ingredients for growth. One of the pillars identified in the MDG ...
Do poverty dynamics explain the shift to an informal private schooling system in the wake of free public primary education in Nairobi slums?

Oketch, Moses; Mutisya, Maurice; Sagwe, Jackline (UCL IOE Press, 2012)

With the introduction of free primary education (FPE) in Kenya in 2003, it was expected that the burden on poor households in financing primary education would be reduced substantially. This in turn would increase enrolment ...
The free education policy in Kenya: A critique

Limukii, Kaberia E.; Mualuko, Ndiku J. (Academic Journals, 2012)

Educational reforms are crucial in a country if the reforms benefit the intended target group. One of the educational reforms in Kenya was the introduction of Free Primary Education. This was informed by the need to improve ...

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