Socioeconomic status, geographic location of the school, age at initial enrollment, and child labor (but not child gender) are some of the factors that contribute to school non-attendance and dropout rates. Child labor is particularly countervailing and this paper highlights that a differentiation ...
Learning crisis, rising poverty and child brides in Uganda; Covid school closures blamed Children in Uganda head back to the classroom this week as the world's longest school closure ends - but lost learning may lead to high dropout rates in the coming weeks without urgent action, Save the...
As wide reaching as these plans were, however, these policies have been less effective in encouraging school enrolment. This is revealed by the relapse into high illiteracy and school dropout rates in poorer areas (Le, 2008). The reason given for this, researchers speculate, is that the tuitio...
Limitations and Exceptions:Enrollment indicators are based on annual school surveys, but do not necessarily reflect actual attendance or dropout rates during the year. Also, the length of education differs across countries and can influence enrollment rates, although the International Standard Classification...
Refugees in Kenya predominantly originate from Somalia, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and other coujntries in East and Central Africa. As of 2024, Kenya hosts Discussion The overriding reason behind children and youths’ primary school dropout ...
This resulted in enhanced nutritional status, increased school attendance, and decreased dropout rates among beneficiaries of school feeding programmes [37]. Parent/caregiver level factors ‘Living arrangements’ of the children was significantly associated with ‘normal weight,‘‘at risk of underweight,...
[30,31,40,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50] reduces dropout rates, [42,43,44,49] and increases enrollment. [40,42,48,50] On the other hand, a study reported that stopping SFP increases male enrollment, and decreases class repetition [49]. In contrast, there were also studies that reported...
We have collected information on number of girls that have dropped out per school to assess level of dropout rates over the time period. Discussion This RCT study is one of the first to evaluate the effect of a multicomponent intervention to improve MH and school attendance among school girls ...
Although there was no gender difference in absenteeism or dropout rate among students those who received educational support, stark differences were found in secondary school Year IV national examination pass rates with girls significantly less likely to pass compared to boys. The disparity in secondary...
school dropoutmarginalisationexclusionnarrativesexperiencesUganda has one of the highest rates of early school leavers (ESLs) in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the highest in East Africa, despite impressive school enrolment rates. While studies have been conducted on the possible causes of this phenomenon, ...