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Mitra, Sugata; Dangwal, Ritu – Prospects, 2022
The "hole-in-the-wall" experiments of 1999, as named by the popular media, started with an Internet-connected computer being embedded in a wall facing a slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi, India. Several studies showed that groups of children, when given access to the Internet, can learn by themselves. Children's academic marks improved, and…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Internet, Foreign Countries, Independent Study
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Smith, William C. – International Review of Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an unprecedented shutdown of society. Among the various safety measures taken, much attention has been given to school closure as a non-pharmaceutical mitigation tool to curb the spread of the disease through ensuring "social" (physical) distancing. Nearly 1.725 billion children in over 95% of countries…
Descriptors: School Closing, Access to Education, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Ingutia, Rose – Education 3-13, 2020
The Sustainable Development Goals target of leaving no one behind has stalled because out-of-school children (OOSC) in Africa are generally poor, disabled, orphaned, minority, working, overaged, child-brides and are remote. Descriptive statistical analysis of quantitative secondary data was applied to investigate education issues. Comparisons…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Out of School Youth, Foreign Countries, Low Income
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Ha, Sha – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
According to the 'International Standard Classification of Education' (ISCED), 'Continuing Education' is composed of the 'Continuing Primary and Lower Secondary Adult Education' (ISCED1, ISCED2), followed by the 'Adult Education and Training' System (ISCED3), including an 'Upper Secondary Education System' (ISCED4 and finally, the 'Tertiary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Continuing Education, Adult Education, Secondary Education
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Rosário, Pedro; Núñez, José Carlos; Vallejo, Guillermo; Azevedo, Raquel; Pereira, Raquel; Moreira, Tânia; Fuentes, Sonia; Valle, Antonio – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
Low schooling, high non-attendance and school dropout rates are critical phenomena within disadvantaged groups, especially among the Gypsy community. For example, in the UK, 10%-25% of Gypsy children do not attend school regularly and have significantly higher levels of overall absence from school (percentage of half-day sessions missed) than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Attendance Patterns, Dropouts
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Adelman, Melissa A.; Székely, Miguel – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
School dropout is a growing concern in Central America, and in Latin America as a whole, because of its consequences for economic productivity, the inclusiveness of growth, social cohesion, and increasing youth risks. This paper utilizes more than two decades of household survey data to construct a systematic overview of school dropout at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Potential Dropouts
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Kattan, Raja Bentaouet; Székely, Miguel – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
This study examines recent trends and factors in school dropout at the upper secondary education level across Latin America. The methodology employs repeated cross sections of data to track the life cycle path of cohorts of individuals in 18 countries. A key finding is that while upper secondary enrollment rates increased in the region, dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cohort Analysis, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
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Wahlgren, Bjarne; Mariager-Anderson, Kristina – Adult Learning, 2017
Dropout is a serious problem within education. This article reports on an intervention project, titled "New Roles for the Teacher--Increased Completion Rates Through Social Responsibility," which sought to reduce nonattendance and drop-out rates in the Danish adult educational system by improving teachers' competences. This goal was…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Social Responsibility, Graduation Rate, Program Improvement
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Sahin, Seyma; Arseven, Zeynep; Kiliç, Abdurrahman – International Journal of Instruction, 2016
The aim of the study is to investigate the causes of student absenteeism and school dropouts at primary, secondary and high school level in Düzce Province and to develop suggestions for solving these problems. A "case study" design, which is one of the qualitative research approaches, was used in this study. The study group consisted of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Dropout Rate
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Sekiya, Takeshi – Education 3-13, 2014
The Reconstructed Cohort Method is often used to examine the status of national education. However, this method does not account for individual details and we know little about the status of school enrolments by tracking individual students from entrance until dropout or graduation. This study employs the True Cohort Method to analyse data for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Enrollment Trends, Cohort Analysis
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Sarker, Profulla; Davey, Gareth – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2009
Although education provision has recently improved in Bangladesh, the exclusion of children in the poorest families remains a pressing issue. Surveys in Bangladesh about school attendance have to date been confined to the dominant ethnic groups. Data are lacking for ethnic minorities such as indigenous children. To address this issue, we surveyed…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Developing Nations, Ethnic Groups, Focus Groups
Alhassan, Seidu; Adzahlie-Mensah, Vincent – Online Submission, 2010
This paper provides insights about the specific impact teachers' actions and attitudes can have on access to schooling. The paper reports how teachers' irregular attendance, lateness and absenteeism as well as misuse of instructional hours and indiscriminate use of corporal punishment contribute to pupils' irregular attendance and dropping out. It…
Descriptors: Teacher Attendance, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Teacher Role
Fleisch, Brahm; Shindler, Jennifer – Online Submission, 2009
This monograph looks at patterns and prevalence of initial school enrolment, late entry, attainment promotion, and repetition in urban South Africa. The paper pays special attention to the particular gender nature of the patterns of school participation. The study analyses data generated in the genuine representative cohort study, Birth-to-Twenty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Incidence, Access to Education, Attendance Patterns
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Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey; Adu-Yeboah, Christine – Comparative Education, 2009
This paper examines the issue of school dropout in six communities in the Savelugu-Nanton District in the Northern Region of Ghana. The study focused on 89 children (64 boys and 25 girls) aged 7-16 years, who had dropped out of school. A snowballing sampling method was employed to recruit participants to the study. Two researchers interviewed the…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Rate, At Risk Students, 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
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