An assessment of a learning intervention showed that the impact differed between groups of pupils.
- Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
An education sector that responds to the different needs of boys and girls creates equal participation in learning.
Studies show that teaching parents how to support their children can lead to improvements in literacy.
Des pratiques culturelles profondément ancrées - telles que les mutilations génitales féminines et le mariage des enfants - empêchent les filles de progresser à l'école.
Deep-seated cultural practices – such as female genital mutilation and child marriage – prevent girls from making progress in school.
Parents are enablers, motivators and facilitators of their children’s education.
Despite government efforts to provide digital resources for students kept out of school for most of 2020, access to these platforms was deeply unequal
There are concerns that the longer girls spend out of school, the more they are at risk of dropping out.
Study presents a model that can be scaled to improve learning outcomes and transition rates for young people living in urban informal settlements.
Getting more children into secondary school in Kenya requires striking a balance between top-down policy and bottom-up implementation.
Education outcomes of young people can be improved with targeted interventions. At the centre lies the participation of partners – community, family and schools.
A new education system in set to replace the 32-year-old 8-4-4 system which has come to symbolise much of what’s wrong with education in Kenya today.
A shocking wave of school fires set by students across Kenya has elicited a range of counter-measures, none of which appears to get to the root of the problem.
Thanks to life-skills training, girls who previously believed it improbable that they would go on to secondary school are now allowing themselves to dream about possibilities.
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