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The Relationship between School-Related Gender-Based Violence and Absenteeism: Evidence from 14 Southern and Eastern African Countries
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Lee, Sora; Rudolf, Robert – South African Journal of Education, 2022
Children in sub-Saharan African countries face higher exposure to gender-based violence (GBV) compared to their counterparts in other world regions (United Nations Children's Fund [UNICEF], 2014). When GBV occurs in schools, it severely endangers access to education. Using the third round of data of the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Educational Environment, Access to Education
An Analysis of the Learning Performance Gap between Urban and Rural Areas in Subsaharan Africa
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Sumida, Sugata; Kawata, Keisuke – South African Journal of Education, 2021
The learning gap between urban and rural areas is a persistent problem in many sub-Saharan African countries. Previous studies have found that the urban-rural learning gap is attributed to the fact that student characteristics and school resources are different in urban and rural areas. Our study updates this finding by using the latest dataset…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Rural Urban Differences, Student Characteristics