• Gender values, Schooling, and Transition to Adulthood: A Study of Female and Male Pupils from Two Urban Schools in Kenya 

  Chege, Fatuma Nyaguthii (Kenyatta University, 2012)

  Studies on gender and education in Kenya have portrayed girls and women as passive victims of the patriarchal structures of family and school that reflect gender relations within a macro-system that defines femininity and ...
• Dynamics of Education in Kenya: From School Access to Equity and Quality 

  Childress, Michael (The School Fund, 2015)

  In 2000, the international community promised to provide every child with a primary education by 2015. Unfortunately this goal hasn’t been met. In Kenya, significant progress has been made toward expanding access to both ...
• Disparities in the System: The Effects of Free Primary Education (FPE) on the Quality of Education in Nairobi’s Public Schools. 

  Chuck, Adrienne (2009)

  In 2003, the Kenyan government implemented Free Primary Education on a nationwide scale. Since then, the policy has received both support and disapproval from the public. Although many analyses have examined the impacts ...
• Disadvantaged Girls in Kenyan Schools 

  Marco, Alexia di (Education Development Trust, 2016)
• Dropout among Male Pupils in Primary Schools of Igembe District, Kenya 

  Muthaa, George M.; M’muyuri, Misheck M.; Bururia, David; Mwenda, Eric E. (Scientific Research, 2013)

  Education plays a key role in human development through the process of empowering people to improve their wellbeing and participation in national building. Dropout however poses a serious threat to gains in education despite ...
• Influence of Availability of Sanitary Facilities on the Participation of the Girl Child in Public Primary Schools in Garissa County, Kenya 

  Njue, Eunice Kagendo; Muthaa, George M. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2015)

  Every child has the right to quality education and good health care. The government of Kenya introduced Free Primary Education to ensure all school aged children acquire basic education. Despite ...
• Ethnolinguistic Background and Enrollment in Primary Education: Evidence from Kenya 

  Vimefall, Elin; Andren, Daniela; Levin, Jorgen (African Development Review, 2017)

  In Kenya, educational enrollment rates increased significantly after 2003, when primary education became free of charge. Unfortunately, approximately one million school-aged children are still not enrolled in school. Earlier ...
• The Influence of Child Labor on Academic Achievement of Primary School Pupils in Suba and Homa-Bay Districts, Kenya 

  Ligeve, Susan Nduta; Poipoi, Moses W. (International Journal of Learning and Development, 2012)

  This causal-comparative study investigated the effects of child labor on academic achievement of primary school pupils in Suba and Homa-Bay districts in Kenya. The participants of this study ...
• Selected Factors Affecting Girls’ Participation in Primary School Education in Kenya 

  Kipkulei, Benjamin C.; Chepchieng, Micah C.; Chepchieng, Mary J.; Boitt, Lydia M. (Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2012)

  The girl child participation in primary school level of education has become a real concern in all nations of the World particularly in the developing countries of the Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya included. Girl child education ...
• Transitional Enrolment Trends within the Different Educational Levels in Kenya: An Analysis of Promoting Facets 

  Mumiukha, Catherine K.; Ngugi, Margaret N.; Ndiga, Beatrice A.; Fedha, Flora (IISTE, 2015)

  Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have for decades grappled with bridging the gap in enrolment numbers between male and female students. Education for All (EFA) goals have provided guidance to these countries on attainment ...
• Effects of the Type of School Attended on Students Academic Performance in Kericho and Kipkelion Districts, Kenya 

  Mburu, David N. P. (International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2013)

  This study aimed at finding out the effects of the type of school attended on male and female students, academic performance in Kenya. The study sought to explore the influence of the different male and female students’ ...
• School-Based Factors Influencing the Implementation of Inclusive Education in Public Primary Schools in Nyamira County, Kenya 

  Osero, Peterson Ondieki; Makori, Charles Omoke; Gudo, Calleb Owino (International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Review, 2015)

  Inclusion is a philosophy that is based on values aiming at maximizing participation of all in society and education by minimizing exclusionary and discriminatory practices. Educational institutions are to provide learning ...
• Factors Affecting the Access of Free Primary Education by Gender in Kenya 

  Werunga, R. Kikechi; Andala, Phillip; Chepkwony, S. Kisebe; Simiyu, Ferdinand (Journal of Educational and Social Research, 2012)

  Countries world over have endeavored to achieve gender equality in education given that education is central in empowering people and propelling national growth and development. Kenya, in its efforts to ...
• Experience of School Related Gender Based Violence by Pupils and the Culture of Silence: A Case of Primary Schools in Kasarani District, Nairobi County, Kenya 

  Barasa, Sarah Fedha; Ngare, Grace Wamue (International Journal of Education and Research, 2013)

  The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the Kenyan Constitution provide for the protection of children from all forms ...
• Gender and Regional Disparities in Enrolment and Academic Achievement in Kenya: Implications for Education Planning 

  Amunga, Jane; Amadalo, Maurice Musasia; Maiyo, Julius (Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2010)

  According to the requirements of the educational millennium development goals, countries are supposed to ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike complete a full course of primary education and eliminate ...
• Declining Boys’ Participation and Performance in Kenyan Schools: Are Girls’ Education Projects Influencing New Forms of Masculinities? 

  Chege, Fatuma N.; Likoye, Francis; Nyambura, Salome; Guantai, Hellen Kiende (Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education, 2013)

  This study was designed to interrogate the basic assumption that boys in specific regions in Kenya were –compared with girls– beginning to underperform in school attendance, performance and completion rates. The study took ...
• Towards an Improvement of Women’s Representation in Primary Schools Leadership Positions in Eldoret Municipality, Kenya 

  Barmao, Catherine (Centre for Promoting Ideas, 2013)

  In both developing and developed countries, women continue to be under-represented in decision-making and leadership in several areas. The consequence of this gender gap is that women do not participate fully in decisions ...
• ‘This is a Competition’: The Relationship between Examination Pressure and Gender Violence in Primary Schools in Kenya 

  Vanner, Catherine (Elsevier, 2018)

  This study explores the relationship between gender violence in schools and teaching and learning processes in two case study primary schools in Kirinyaga County, Kenya. For seven months in 2015, the following qualitative ...
• Spatial and Gender Inequality in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education Examination Results 

  Kimosop, Peter K.; Otiso, Kefa M.; Ye, Xinyue (Elsevier, 2015-08)

  Kenya's 8-4-4 system of education consists of 8 years of primary education, 4 years of secondary education, and 4 years of university education. The system was introduced in 1985 with the primary aim of better aligning ...
• Socio-Cultural and Economic Factors Affecting Primary Education of Maasai Girls in Loitokitok District, Kenya. 

  Anastasia, Nkoyiai; Teklemariam, Amanuel A. (Washington State University Press, 2011)

  This research investigated socio-cultural and economic factors affecting formal education of the Maasai girls at primary school in Loitokitok District, Kenya. Although the government of Kenya has put efforts to improve ...

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