Thesis (MComm (Economics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / The aim of this study was to analyse educational performance in Mozambique by 1)
comparing the determinants of education in developing countries with the situation in
country, 2) understanding the supply factors that influence enrolments and education
attainment, 3) evaluating the efficiency of the current education system, 4) analysing the
importance to education of each of the demand determinants and of school quality on
education attainment, and 5) contributing information to assist policy makers with
decisions regarding education.
Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world. More than half of the
population lives below the poverty line and the general adult literacy is only 54%. The
education system is mainly characterized by weak performance as a whole, high grade
repetition, high dropout rates, low survival rates, high pupil-teacher ratios and a low
percentage of qualified teachers. In addition to this, there is a great deal of inequality in
education achievement by province, place of residence, income group and gender. After
this preliminary analysis, chapter II (literature review) highlighted critical inputs and
served as a guideline for the following chapters of this study. The dimensions analysed in
the followed chapters were: 1) Supply Factors, 2) Demand determinants and 3) School
Quality.
Chapter III therefore consisted of a descriptive analysis of the most important supply ...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/1961 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Bilale, Fernando Jorge Castanheira |
| Contributors | Van der Berg, Servaas, University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Economics. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 799474 bytes, application/pdf |
| Rights | University of Stellenbosch |
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