| Abstract: | There has been a growing trend towards a commitment to universal primary education in many African countries before the 1960s. While many African nations have formulated explicit and specific educational goals, the basic frame-work for educational development was provided by Addis Ababa (1961) and the subsequent conferences. This paper focuses on the relationship between the concurrent attainment of universal primary education and equal educational opportunity. Tried to show is that while inequality exists in the larger society and in individual abilities, universal primary education may improve, but cannot equalize acces to educational services. School characteristics are found, through examination of aggregate data collected about schools and their contexts, to be weakly related to the effort to increase school enrolment and some of these characteristics tend to have deleterious effects on educational expansion. This suggests that even when universal primary education is attained it cannot be sustained by improving educational input alone. Notes, table. |
Education in Africa 
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