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Ramchander, Manduth – Africa Education Review, 2017
Student absenteeism at higher education institutions (HEIs) is a cause for concern as it has implications for students' academic performance and therefore graduation rates. Graduation rates to some extent influence funding to which universities are entitled. This study aimed to establish the contextual factors that influenced student absenteeism…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Context Effect, Performance Factors
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Moyi, Peter – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
Sierra Leone was ravaged by a civil war between 1991 and 2002. Since the end of the war, it has witnessed an unprecedented increase in school enrollments. Although school enrollment has increased, the number of school age children who are out of school remains high. The focus of international agencies is on children of primary school age, yet a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Attendance, Graduation Rate, Foreign Countries
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Bertrand, Marianne; Linden, Leigh L.; Perez-Calle, Francisco – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries--the conditional cash transfer (CCT)--with a student level randomization that allows us to generate intra-family and peer-network variation. We test three treatments: a basic CCT treatment based on school attendance, a savings treatment that…
Descriptors: Siblings, Graduation Rate, Attendance, Attendance Patterns
Rolleston, Caine – Online Submission, 2009
The period since 1991 has seen a general improvement both in terms of household welfare and schooling participation in Ghana. This monograph explores the patterns among descriptive indicators and uses regression analysis to examine possible causal relationships with special reference to the role of education in determining welfare and its…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Family (Sociological Unit), Living Standards, Role of Education