The Study of the Problems and Prospects of Implementing Basic Education in Ethiopia
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2001-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The main purpose of the study was to make a diagnostic study on the process of implementing basic
education in Ethiopia and detect change in the system, identify the level of the problems, the short coming
of the system, the pressing problem which need to be solved and the area in which more efforts and
investment are required for improvement.
The study was designed to answer four basic questions. The questions were: 1). What are the extent of
coverage and access to basic education? 2) Wluu are the trends and patterns of education at inequality in
participation rate? 3) What is the level of internal efficiency of the system? 4) Wlwt strategies should be
employed to attain basic education?
The study utilized a descriptive survey approach and involves both primary and secondary sources. The
statistical data of the 11 regional states and the date obtained through questionnaire and structured
interview from Amhara, Oromia and SNNP regions were analyzed using relevant statistical tools.
The analysis of data revealed that 1) Coverage and access to basic primary education is limited and
dominated by overage children and the two sides of access, provision and utilization, are in red. 2) The
trend and pattern of regional disparity in participation rate continued to persist in the usual North-South
and the effect was accumulating over time. Concerning the mechanisms of inequality related to gender,
inequality is observed in initial participation, in process and out come. 3) The internal efficiency of the
system was found to be very low due to high wastage caused by repetition and drop out rates. The low
internal efficiency (wastage) is more due to dropout and the holding capacity of the system was
decreasing over time.
Finally, the need for norms and standard on which school distribution is based,
enfo rcing compulsory attendance law, redu cing opportunity costs, in creasing the role
of private sectors, intensifying literacy programs, community sensitization, alternative
patterns of p rimary school provision, identifying priority area zones, building
partnership and mobilizing resources and creating supportive policy environment are
recommended as interventions for promoting equitable access and efficiency to attain
basic education and give the broad and some what abstract goal of basic education for
all a practical meaning and substance.
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Prospects of Implementing Basic Education