| dc.creator | Kinyanjui, Kabiru | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-06T14:42:41Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-06T14:42:41Z | |
| dc.date | 1974-07 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:57:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:57:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Kinyanjui, Kabiru. (1974) Opportunities for school leavers outside the major towns of Kenya?. Discussion Paper 188, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/542 | |
| dc.identifier | 317786 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1895 | |
| dc.description | In this paper the employment opportunities available to Kenyan
secondary school leavers are discussed in the light of national statistics
and data from the Tracer Project which has followed up the employment
history of 1965 - 1969 school leavers. It is pointed out that most
secondary school leavers are attracted to Nairobi and the other major
towns not merely because of an alleged white-collar mentality, but
because that is where most of the opportunities for wage employment
exist. In addition, urban life styles and disproportionately high urban
salaries exercise a much more powerful influence on secondary school
students than the exhortations of school teachers and politicians.
School leavers who are working in rural areas either have the
same kinds of jobs they would have in towns, largely in the public sector,
or have been forced to fall back on their families' resources in farming
and other types of self-employment. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;188 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Work and Labour | |
| dc.subject | Education | |
| dc.title | Opportunities for school leavers outside the major towns of Kenya? | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
