Parental Education and Child Health – Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan

By Monazza Aslam and Geeta Kingdon This study investigates the relationship between parental schooling on the one hand, and child health outcomes  (height and weight) and parental health-seeking behaviour (immunisation status of children), on the other. While establishing a correlational link between parental schooling and child health is relatively straightforward, confirming a causal relationship is [...]

Let’s go by the book

By Shailaja Fennell, Hindustan Times, New Delhi, Aug 2010 The HRD ministry, with the private sector, plans to propose new education models. Instead, it should rely on tried and tested blueprints.   WHILE THE INTENTION OF THE GOVERNMENT’S EDUCATION POLICY IS TO PROVIDE EDUCATION THAT IS OF AN ACCEPTABLE QUALITY FOR ALL CHILDREN, THIS DOES NO’T [...]

Delivery blues stalk success of social schemes

By Shailaja Fennell  Inclusive development is much needed in India today. While the Budget states, ‘For the UPA government, inclusive development is an act of faith’, the Economic Survey suggests we should consider ‘a nation’s progress in terms of the progress of its poorest segment’.  The pathway to social transformation was identified in the Finance [...]

The impact of aid on education policy in India

Christopher Colclough and Anuradha De During the past three decades the importance attributed by governments and international agencies to investment in basic education has changed profoundly.  During the 1960s and 1970s, primary education was given far less emphasis in national economic plans, and aid documents, than was accorded to the higher levels of education, which [...]

Education and transformations in the transition(s) to adulthood in Ghana, Kenya, India and Pakistan – Part 1

Prof. Roger Jefffery, University of Edinburgh Adulthood is usually defined in terms of a series of markers: leaving school, starting a first job, leaving the parental home, forming a first union, marrying and having a first child, becoming a citizen. Such approaches draw on the idea that young people make one transition to what is [...]

Education’s role in health and fertility change in Pakistan

Feyza Bhatti, MHHDC, Pakistan One of the main outcomes of female schooling is supposed to be dramatic improvements in reproductive indicators, such as women’s access to health and family planning services, maternal morbidity and mortality, and indicators of infant and child health. Pakistan is a country where such beneficial outcomes are sorely needed: gross enrolment [...]

Education and transformations in the transition(s) to adulthood in Ghana, Kenya, India and Pakistan – Part 3

Prof. Madeleine Arnot, University of Cambridge more about “Education and Transformation in trans…“, posted with vodpod

Education and transformations in the transition(s) to adulthood in Ghana, Kenya, India and Pakistan – Part 2

Prof. Madeleine Arnot, University of Cambridge more about “Education and Transformation in trans…“, posted with vodpod  

Being young, Kenyan and gendered: the outcomes of schooling and transitions to adulthood in poor urban and rural settings

Fatuma Chege, Kenyatta University, Kenya This paper foregrounds the experiences of schooling among young female and male Kenyan youth aged between 18 and 25 years living in conditions of relative material poverty in urban and rural communities. Using qualitative data–from interviews, household activity triggers and photo-data – the study demonstrates how young men and women [...]

Financing education in Kenya: expenditures, outcomes and the role of international aid

RECOUP Working Paper no. 25 by Wycliffe Otieno and Christopher Colclough The provision of widely spread education and training opportunities has been a long-standing objective of the Government of Kenya (GoK). Since Independence, the Government has sought to address the challenges facing the education sector through a range of policy initiatives, often with mixed results. [...]