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Factors Influencing Education and Age at First Marriage in an Arid Region: The Case of the Borana of Marsabit district, Kenya
(2000-04)
The role of education in development is widely recognized in many countries. However, the value placed on formal education differs from one community to the next. In this paper I argue that among the Borana pastoralists ...
Supporting Entrepreneurship Education in East Africa
(2013-02)
The University of Nairobi School of Business and Plymouth University Business School were commissioned by the UK Department for International Development to assess the capacity of business schools and other institutions ...
The effect of education on the timing of marriage in Kenya
(2005)
This paper investigates the effect of education on the timing of marriage among Kenyan women and the relative effects of education across generations of women. Data used is drawn from the 1998 Kenya Demographic and Health ...
Profiles and adaptive strategies of owner-managers of medium-sized firms in Kenya
(1994)
The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to develop a profile of owner-manager entrepreneurs of 30 medium-sized firms in the "missing middle" sector of Kenya's economy, and (b) to investigate the business strategies used ...
Educational expansion and economic decline: returns to education in Kenya, 1978-1995
(1999)
Educational expansion followed by economic decline in Kenya has been associated with a decline in
the social return to secondary education, conventionally calculated, from 20% in 1978 to 6% in 1995. Wage
benefits from ...
Incorporation of traditional African cultural values in the formal education system for development, peace building and good governance
(2014)
In contemporary Africa, formal education is recognized as a basic prerequisite for
development. By implication, the school has become important as a socializing agent. In spite
of this, schooling is based in institutions ...
Education in Revolutionary Africa
(1965)
The author examines the problems in organising national systems of education which would enable the teacher and the community to play their full part in the great task of building the future of Africa. Both the teacher and ...
School knowledge and its relevance to everyday life in rural Western Kenya
(2006)
This article examines the relevance of school knowledge in the context of everyday life using ethnographic data collected among primary schoolchildren and adults in rural western Kenya. Using the concept of the educated ...