Description
Every country that has worked towards, and then attained, universal primary education has celebrated that achievement as a great step forward. Maintaining universal primary education, once achieved, offers new challenges, examined in this book.
Lalage Bown and her co-researchers from the Council for Education in the Commonwealth explore the various economic, political and social pressures which may affect the progress of educational provision, as well as the different national educational policies and strategies themselves, as they play out in five very different Commonwealth African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia.
The contributors’ findings will inform the decisions of both national and international education policy-makers working to ensure that universal primary education becomes, and remains, a reality across Africa.
Contents
Foreword
Henry Kaluba
List of tables and figures
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction and acknowledgements
Lalage Bown
2. Ghana – Towards FCUBE (Free and Compulsory Universal Basic Education)
Francis K. Amedahe and Balasubramanyam Chandramohan
3. Kenya’s three initiatives in UPE
Alba de Souza and Gituro Wainaina
4. Regaining momentum towards UPE in Zambia
Fidelis Haambote and John Oxenham
5. UPE and UBE in a federal system – What happened in Nigeria
Felicity Binns and Pai Obanya
6. Sustaining UPE against the odds in Tanzania
Peter Williams
7. Lessons for the future
Lalage Bown
Appendix: Growth in GER
Sources and references
About the authors