Maintaining Universal Primary Education
Lessons from Commonwealth Africa

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.
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Sustaining UPE against the odds in Tanzania
This study refers basically to experience in Mainland Tanzania. The Zanzibar education system is separately administered from education on the Mainland, where 97 per cent of the population resides. UNESCO data aggregates information for the two constituent parts of the Union but most of the reports and monographs on education in Tanzania confine their discussion to the situation on the Mainland. In the present study, wherever it is known that observations and data apply to Zanzibar as well as the Mainland, that fact is made known.
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