Maintaining universal primary education
Subtitle: lessons from Commonwealth Africa
By: Council for Education in the Commonwealth project team ; edited on their behalf by Lalage Bown
Contributors: Bown, Lalage J.; Commonwealth Secretariat; Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions & Equity
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780850928273; 9781848590458
Subjects: Elementary Education; Education and state; English-speaking Africa; Ghana; Kenya; Zambia; Nigeria; Tanzania; Primary education; Compulsory education; Enseignement primaire; Accès à l'éducation; Grundskolan; Utbildningspolitik; Grundschule
Description: "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"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: " ... with additional support from the CREATE project of the University of Sussex"--Page iii.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ghana : towards FCUBE (Free and Compulsory Universal Basic Education)  -- Francis K. Amedahe and Balasubramanyam Chandramohan; title: Kenya's three initiatives in UPE  -- Alba de Souza and Gituro Wainaina; title: Regaining momentum towards UPE in Zambia  -- Fidelis Haambote and John Oxenham; title: UPE and UBE in a federal system : what happened in Nigeria  -- Felicity Binns and Pai Obanya; title: Sustaining UPE against the odds in Tanzania  -- Peter Williams; title: Lessons for the future  -- Lalage Bown -- Appendix:; title: Growth in GER.