This article shows how interventions to provide Universal Primary Education (UPE) from the 1970s into the twenty-first century affected efforts to improve the quality of primary education in Kenya and Tanzania. While the interventions have made significant differences in the lives of many communities by increasing access to education of children…

This study shows how the provision of educational facilities in Kenya since the colonial era has been skewed in favour of densely populated agricultural communities. It analyses interventions to redress the resultant imbalances, such as the school-fees waiver, free primary education, the construction of boarding schools, and school feeding…

Discusses the experiences of Tanzania, Botswana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in incorporating vocational education in secondary curricula by diversifying the whole formal educational system, creating parallel vocational systems, or injecting vocational components into the core curriculum. Discusses reasons that outcomes did not meet…