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Study on Individual Children's Enrollment Patterns in the Republic of Zambia:Focusing on Children Who Cannot Move on to Secondary Education

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Zambia, located in sub-Saharan Africa, is known for its excellent access to primary education.Its net enrollment rate and completion rate of primary education reached 94.3% and 86.2%, respectively, in 2014.The goal of achieving the expansion of primary education is now in sight, and the government has shifted its focus from primary to secondary education in recent years.However, regarding the Sustainable Development Goals of "No one will be left behind," it is important to clarify the enrollment situation of children who are unable to move on to secondary education, which is the next stage of primary education, in detail.Therefore, this study revealed the enrollment situation of individual children using school record surveys and interview surveys and, in particular, examined the enrollment situation of children who were unable to move on to secondary education.The results showed that all children who could not move on to secondary education left school in the upper grades of primary education.Among them, the most common pattern was to advance straight through grades without repeating a grade to Grade 7, the final grade of primary education, but to then fail the nationally standardized examination and leave school.

Source: Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)

Authors: Naruho Ezaki, 武司関谷, Takeshi Sekiya

Language: English

Topic: Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Award: International Comparison Research of Enrollment Situation by True Cohort Method Contributing to Education Policy Plan for Post Education for All (EFA)

OpenAlex ID: W2788099178