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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...