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Universalizing Primary Education In Sierra Leone: Promises And Pitfalls On The Path To Equity, Grace Pai
Universalizing Primary Education In Sierra Leone: Promises And Pitfalls On The Path To Equity, Grace Pai
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What barriers remain in the progress towards achieving Universal Primary Education (UPE), and how does the UPE agenda affect out-of-school children? Through a mixture of historical, quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, this study examines these questions using the developing context of Sierra Leone as a case study.
Findings from over 100 interviews show that first of all, the most salient barrier that prevents children from participating in primary school is the fact that school is not free de facto in spite of the national abolishment of primary school fees in 2004. Rather than commonly cited constraints such as a …
Reconstructing Education In Post-Conflict Sierra Leone, Grace Pai
Reconstructing Education In Post-Conflict Sierra Leone, Grace Pai
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This study finds that by prioritizing universal development programmes instead of employing a conflict-sensitive approach rooted in attending to the specific inequities present in Sierra Leone, the current education system is ignoring the needs and desires of certain subpopulations of youth. Specifically, although the state has been very successful in increasing overall access to basic education for both boys and girls in rural Sierra Leone, the current focus on improving the quality of academic education has sidelined the growth of technical and vocational education that many youth desire. Instead, sectors such as tertiary education are prioritized above all else.
Furthermore, …