Reaching the underserved with complementary education: lessons from Ghana's state and non-state sectors
Editor(s)
Rose, PaulinePublication date
2010-06-01Keywords
Development methodsCountry
Ghana
Metadata
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Development in PracticeDocument type
Journal articleLanguage
EnglishDescription
Between 1995-06 and 2005-06, more than 85,000 children between the ages of 8 and 14 years participated in a complementary education programme in rural areas of northern Ghana. School for Life, a non-profit organisation, provides nine months of instruction in the children's spoken language. An impact assessment of the programme demonstrates that complementary education programmes are able to help children attain basic literacy in their mother tongue within a shorter timeframe and more cost-effectively than formal state primary-school systems can.Pages
13ISSN
0961-4524EISSN
1364-9213ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/09614521003763152