Do low-cost private school leavers in the informal settlement have a good chance of admission to a government secondary school? A study from Kibera in Kenya

Ohba, Asayo

doi:10.1080/03057925.2012.733536

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“…For they perceived the quality of government services at primary are low, while those at the secondary level are not necessarily low. This phenomenon has been observed elsewhere as well (Ohba, 2013). proficiency from an early age.…”

Section: Interaction and Implications Of Supply And Demandsupporting

confidence: 77%

“…As mentioned, we seek to address the lack of knowledge on the ECCE sector by characterizing the context and nature of the LFPS market in one large slum-Mtendere. Our goal in this and the next sections is to describe key features of the location as well as the schools in the market and the parents that participate in said market, just as a handful of other studies have done in other locations (Fennell & Malik, 2012;Harma, 2016;Moschetti, 2015;Ohba, 2013;Oketch, Mutisya, Ngware, & Ezeh, 2010;Singh & Bangay, 2014;Srivastava & Noronha, 2016). Not only will these two sections help to answer basic questions about market participants at the ECCE level, but they will also help to interpret the market dynamics that are reported.…”

Section: The Context Of the Private Preschool Market In Mtenderementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While many aspects of the LFPS phenomenon have been explored, there are fewer studies that have attempted to map the supply-demand dynamics of LFPS markets within their structural constraints. Those studies that do look at market dynamics tend look at how parents and students choose among schools and exercise their "voice" (Ohba, 2013;Srivastava, 2007), how LFPSs and parents are engaged in a delicate relationship where they depend on each other (Edwards, Klees, & Wildish, 2017), and how students navigate the social worlds of LFPSs (Sucharita, 2014). These studies provide valuable insights on how markets work in very low-income settings, and this is an important area for further investigation.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Low-fee private schools, the state, and globalization: A market analysis within the political sociology of education and development

Edwards

Okitsu

Mwanza

2019

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This study investigates the emergence and supply-demand dynamics of a market for low-fee private schools (LFPS) at the level of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in a slum of Lusaka, Zambia. Based on data collection over 1.5 years, the study reveals that, despite a government policy to support ECCE, over 90% of ECCE centers are private; that school operators tend to be former teachers, businessmen/women, and religious leaders; and that LFPSs charge, on average, 2.5 times as much as government ECCE centers for tuition, not including additional indirect costs. The paper discusses how teachers in LFPSs are caught in the middle, making less than the average income earned by others in the surrounding slum, and are unable to afford LFPS fees themselves. Importantly, the paper highlights that lower income quintiles spend a greater percentage of their income on ECCE, and that a majority of families in the study must make tradeoffs between ECCE, food, housing, and other basic expenditures in order to afford private ECCE, which is a necessity given the inadequate supply of government ECCE centers. In addition to addressing school strategies for keeping costs down, this study reports on parental decision-making when it comes to school selection. Finally, beyond a straight market analysis of LFPSs at the ECCE level in Zambia, this article also comments on how this market fits into the dialectical nature of local and global contexts. That is, it draws attention to the workings of the Zambian state and its precarious position in the global capitalist economy.

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Low-fee private schools, the state, and globalization: A market analysis within the political sociology of education and development

Edwards

Okitsu

Mwanza

2019

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“…Furthermore, research has demonstrated growth of participation in unofficial education markets in numerous developing countries. Referred to commonly as 'unrecognized' or 'unregistered' private schools, these unofficial education markets often account for significant shares of total private enrollments (Härmä, 2011;Larbi et al, 2004;Mehta, 2005;Ohba, 2013;Tooley et al, 2011Tooley et al, , 2005Tooley and Dixon, 2006;World Bank, 2016b). Unofficial low-cost private schools are increasing in urban localities, with informal settlements demonstrating particularly high levels of participation (Oketch et al, 2010b;Rose and Adelabu, 2007;Tooley et al, 2008); although, strong participation has also been identified in some rural areas (Akaguri, 2011;Härmä, 2011).…”

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Regulating market entry of low-cost private schools in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a theory of private education regulation

Baum

Cooper

Lusk-Stover

2018

International Journal of Educational Development

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This study provides a comparative assessment of policies governing private schools in twenty countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Findings suggest that current regulatory systems are failing to adequately address the negative externalities and failures of private schooling markets. Insufficient capacity on the part of governments is a contributor to uneven policy implementation and creates opportunities for rentseeking and corruption. Onerous market entry regulations offer constraints on the growth of official private education markets, but facilitate growth in unofficial markets if demand for education is not being fully met by the supply of government service provision, restricting the government's ability to provide adequate oversight of private providers.

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“…The evidence that is presented in the foregoing paragraph does suggest that as much as quality was a determinant of parental choice for the schools that their children attended Oketch et al, 2012), the inadequacies of government schools were yet another reason for the choice of private schools (Ohba, 2013).…”

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Reflections of Teachers in the FPE Era

Abuya

Ngware

2016

Sage Open

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The free primary education policy has led to a significant increase in primary school enrollment in the country, from 8.6 million children in 2008 to 9.9 million in 2012. Increased enrollment complicated the work of teachers in the classrooms in the wake of FPE. This article seeks to document the challenges that teachers face in Kenyan classrooms across six urban sites in Kenya. Data come from the Education Research Program at the African Population and Health Research Center, collected in the months of January to March 2012. This article presents data from Focus Group Discussions, which were analyzed using thematic qualitative analysis. Results show that teachers across the six urban sites faced numerous challenges, with the most striking one being the process of evaluation by district quality assurance officers, who need to take into consideration the circumstances in which teachers teach in the schools across the country. Overall, the study called for the need to take the contexts of the respective schools into consideration even as they visit schools to ensure that teachers adhere to the quality assurance and standards procedures. This is because different schools have different teachers implementing the curricula.

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Do low-cost private school leavers in the informal settlement have a good chance of admission to a government secondary school? A study from Kibera in Kenya

Cited by 27 publications

References 9 publications

Low-fee private schools, the state, and globalization: A market analysis within the political sociology of education and development

Low-fee private schools, the state, and globalization: A market analysis within the political sociology of education and development

Regulating market entry of low-cost private schools in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a theory of private education regulation

Reflections of Teachers in the FPE Era

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