{"title":"Massification of tertiary education and its inequality in Kenya: A case study of top students from a rural day secondary school","authors":"Miku Ogawa","doi":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Even with enhanced secondary education in Africa, a large number of secondary school graduates lack decent work opportunities and end up pursuing tertiary education. However, Africa struggles to provide tertiary education to meet the increasing demand. This study focuses on graduates from a day secondary school in a rural area in western Kenya. Students from vulnerable backgrounds, even with high academic achievements, are forced to join government-appointed universities, even if they are unpopular and low in quality. In contrast, students from privileged backgrounds access popular universities even if their achievements are not comparable with government-sponsored students.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48004,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Educational Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142274673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maternal education and child mortality: Evidence from developing countries","authors":"Kien Le , My Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper evaluates how maternal education affects child mortality in the context of 52 low- and middle-income countries. The sister fixed-effects model is employed, where we compare the child mortality outcome between biological sisters who attain different numbers of educational years. We find that an additional year of maternal education is linked with a 0.4 percentage point decrease in the likelihood of child mortality (a 4.3 % reduction relative to the sample mean). Additionally, the mechanism analysis reveals that improved women’s labor market outcome, increased access to information, assortative matching, and health input allocation are possible pathways to the link between maternal education and child mortality.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48004,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Educational Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142274672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate change and its impact on education completion rates across four sub-Saharan African countries: A non-parametric approach at the community level","authors":"Marcos Delprato , Daniel Shephard","doi":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103129","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103129","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Climate change is a leading barrier for SDG4 progress, particular across poorer regions which are more affected by it. This study estimates the impact of climate change on communities’ completion rates across the life-course in four sub-Saharan African countries. Our analysis is based on 2524 communities of four countries (i.e., Cameroon, Ethiopia, Guinea and Nigeria) using a non-parametric approach to account for heterogeneity of climate change-education linkage. We find that raising temperatures, lower rainfall, aridity and modifications on the quality of vegetation are all related to lower completion rates, with these impacts being more prominent in contextual disadvantaged communities, suggesting the urgent need for mitigating policies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48004,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Educational Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142242598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The myth of universal education in rural Zimbabwe: Evidence of challenges faced by pupils with albinism","authors":"Mavuka Anotida , Gwenzi Getrude Dadirai , Soko Sneddon , Nyamhanza Nyasha , Kurevakwesu Wilberforce","doi":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103131","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103131","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The lives of children with albinism have not given much attention in the scholarly literature, in particular school-aged children with albinism. The study investigated the challenges faced by secondary school pupils with albinism in accessing universal education in a selected rural area in Zimbabwe. The study utilized qualitative methodology, including in-depth interviews, key informant interviews and FGDs to collect data from pupils, their parents and some community members in Rusape rural area. Using the Human Rights Based Approach, the analysis showed that school children with albinism experience various challenges which affect their access to education. Being in mainstream schools, they experience discrimination, lack of understanding from teachers, segregation, negative self-concept, no sense of belonging, and name calling. They also experience physical challenges, such as, visual impairment, headaches, and sunburns which affect their educational experience. This study concluded that the authorities responsible for ensuring that children’s rights are met should work hard towards the inclusion of children with albinism in mainstream education without the fear of stigma and discrimination.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48004,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Educational Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142229643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A researcher’s battle to make education more resilient","authors":"William Loxley","doi":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103116","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The essay entitled \"A Researcher's Battle to Make Education More Resilient\" reviews the educational research career of William Loxley who worked in international education for the past 45 years. His work led him from early days working in the Philippines and Vietnam, to Chicago Public Schools; and from World Bank, Ford Foundation, IEA, and ADB in Manila to research critical issues of academic achievement, school dropout, vocational education, computers in education, and institutional capacity-building around the world. Taken together, the research offered advice to school policy in the developing world that guided education expansion. Future challenges in international education are great, but they can be acted out from a firm foundation of educational research serving the world community.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48004,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Educational Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142229644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexei Arbona , Víctor Giménez , Sebastian López-Estrada , Diego Prior
{"title":"The relationship between homicides from armed conflict and efficiency of educational quality in Colombia","authors":"Alexei Arbona , Víctor Giménez , Sebastian López-Estrada , Diego Prior","doi":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103120","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103120","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study analyzes the relationship between homicides due to the armed conflict and educational efficiency in 912 municipalities in Colombia between 2014 and 2018, through the Saber 11 standardized test and school pass rates. The main objective is to calculate the potential loss of efficiency in the municipalities due to the armed conflict; to do this, a conditional robust non-parametric approach is applied, incorporating armed conflict as an environmental variable. Results show, primarily, that armed conflict deaths in the municipality are associated with lower educational efficiency; additionally, conflict in both local and neighboring municipalities is found to be significantly correlated with level of educational inefficiency.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48004,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Educational Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142173080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"European students and staff in higher education in the UK: Statistics, challenges and opportunities","authors":"Gianmario Rinaldi","doi":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103128","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103128","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The United Kingdom (UK) Higher Education (HE) community is remarkably international, with a remarkable contribution from citizens of the European Union (EU). Recent statistics indicate that 3.3 % of students (95,505) and 15.6 % of academic staff (37,585) in the UK HE are EU nationals. This article critically analyses current statistics on EU national students and staff in the UK HE system, revealing a diminished appeal for EU nationals. However, internationalisation in the UK HE continues to increase, driven by non-EU internationals. EU nationals face new challenges, such as VISA requirements for work and increased tuition fees for study, acting as barriers to accessing the UK HE system. In contrast, internationalisation opportunities like the Turing Scheme have emerged. Additionally, the data analysis seems to reveal the existence of challenges for EU staff in reaching senior positions compared to UK nationals are highlighted, despite opportunities for improved research impact through international collaborations and access to EU grants contributing to the research income.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48004,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Educational Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059324001548/pdfft?md5=36ecf0fc9ac2bbeb5a19b0cbc2f84081&pid=1-s2.0-S0738059324001548-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142173081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appreciating international scholarships’ potential impact in Palestine’s extreme context","authors":"Anas N. Almassri","doi":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103118","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article presents original findings of career gains perceived by 32 Palestinian alumnae and alumni of 12 master’s scholarship programs. I draw on these original findings in responding to one key research question: How do scholarships work, or not, as a pathway of development in Palestine? I argue that scholarships evidently work well as such because of key mechanisms underlying their perceived career impact: Expanded access to career resources, experiential (global) learning, key skills cultivation, specialized knowledge advancement, and enhanced employers’ appreciation. However, I outline limits of this argument by reflecting on the difficulty of recreating the efficacy of these mechanisms and scaling up their perceived impact in Palestine’s currently extreme context. I finally extend a call for increased, serious reflection on ways to defy this difficulty.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48004,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Educational Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059324001445/pdfft?md5=28e651900e74367fc7016973630cfe08&pid=1-s2.0-S0738059324001445-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142164116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md. Shakil Ahmed , Md. Karimul Islam , Nuzaba Tahreen Rahman Tumtumi , Shafiun N. Shimul
{"title":"Impact of parental internal migration on education in poor households: Evidence from Bangladesh","authors":"Md. Shakil Ahmed , Md. Karimul Islam , Nuzaba Tahreen Rahman Tumtumi , Shafiun N. Shimul","doi":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103114","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103114","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study aims to primarily examine the effects of parental internal migration on education, specifically on enrollment and educational expenditure within extremely impoverished households. The investigation complements the aim of exploring the impact on income, consumption expenditure, and asset holdings of ultra-poor households in order to test how the impact is distributed across household economic conditions and education. We adopted the difference-in-differences (DID) approach to explore the impact. We also used logistic regression to understand the factors determining internal migration. Results show that the household head’s age, household size, and loan burden are the key predictors of internal migration. Internal migration significantly impacts the earnings of ultra-poor households. However, the migration induced expenditure is highly concentrated on non-food expenses, particularly, the accumulation of business and non-business assets. It reduces the spending on children's education. Also, the migration of parents negatively affects the school enrollment, likley due to the lack of proper parental care. This suggests that internal migration increases the income of poor households and provides them with additional assets, both productive and non-productive. However, the impact of this migration on education remains relatively weak.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48004,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Educational Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142149905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Obiageri Bridget Azubuike, William J. Browne, George Leckie
{"title":"State and wealth inequalities in foundational literacy and numeracy skills of secondary school-aged children in Nigeria: A multilevel analysis","authors":"Obiageri Bridget Azubuike, William J. Browne, George Leckie","doi":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103112","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103112","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate state and wealth inequalities in foundational literacy and numeracy skills of secondary school-aged children in Nigeria. We analyse the 2015 Nigerian Education Data Survey using multilevel logistic regression. Our findings reveal significant inequalities in foundational literacy and numeracy skills across states and socioeconomic groups within Nigeria. Over and above the stark household wealth effect, we find a substantial impact of community and state wealth on foundational literacy and numeracy skills, emphasizing the importance of contextual factors operating at multiple geographic scales in shaping the learning outcomes of children in Nigeria. Our results reiterate the learning crisis challenge previously identified among primary school-aged children in Nigeria and underscore the urgent need for targeted interventions to also address educational inequalities among secondary school-aged children in Nigeria.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48004,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Educational Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073805932400138X/pdfft?md5=3f04dc0bd717853ba78b923aed296659&pid=1-s2.0-S073805932400138X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142135977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}