TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ........................................................................................ i
APPROVAL .............................................................................................................. ii
DEDICATION ........................................................................................................ iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS ...................................................................................... iv
CHAPTER ONE ...................................................................................................... 1 1.1
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................... ..... ................ 1 1.1
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY ............................................................... 1 1.2
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM ............................................................. 2 1.3
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY ......................................................................... 3 1.4
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY .................................................................. 3 1.5
RESEARCH QUESTIONS ............................................................................ 3 1.6
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY ............................................................... 4
CHAPTER TWO ..................................................................................................... 5
LITERATURE REVIEW ................................................. ..................................... 5
2.0 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 5 2.1
LITERATURF~ REVIEW· ......................................................................... ........ 5 2.2
REVIEW RELATED LITERATURE .......................................... ...... ............ 7 2.2.
1 SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PRACTICES ................................................ 8 2.2.2
HOUSEHOLD FACTORS ........................................................................ 10 2.2.3
SCHOOL-BASED FACTORS ......................................................... ........ 14
CHAPTER THREE .............................................................................................. 17
METHODOLOGY ........................................................................ ................. ....... . 17 3.0
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................... ... ........... ...... 17 3.1
REASERCH DESIGN .................................................................................... l7 3.2
STUDY POPULATION ............................ .. : .................................................. 17 3 .3
SCOPE OF THE STUDY ............................................................................. 18 3.4
SAMPLE SIZE AND SAMPLING PROCEDURES ................................ 18 lV 3.5
RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS ..................................................................... 1 8 3 .6
DATA COLLECTING PROCEDURES ..................................................... 19 3.7
DATA ANALYSIS ........................................................................................... 19
CHAPTER FOUR ................................................................................................. 20 DATA PRF~ENTATION ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF FINDINGS ............................. ................................................................................. 20 4.0 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 20 4.2 SCHOOL BASED FACTORS THAT AFFECT ENROLMENT OF GIRLS (Answers Research Question]) ......................................................... 21 4 .3 SOCIAL-CULTURAL FACTORS THAT AFFECT ENROLMENT OF GIRLS (Answers Research Question 2) ......................................................... 22 4.4 HOUSEHOLD FACTORS THAT AFFECT ENROLMENT OF GIRLS ··················· · ········································································································ 25 4.5 SUGGESTIONS TO ENCOURAGE GIRLS' ENROLMENT ............... 28 CHAPTER FIVE ................................................................................................... 30 SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ..................... 30 5.0 INTRODUC1'ION ................................................................................. .. ........ 30 5.1.1 DISCUSSION OF RESEARCH OBJECTIVE ONE .......................... 30 5 . 1.2 DISCUSSION OF RESEARCH OBJECTIVE TWO .......................... 31 5.1.3 DISCUSSION OF RESEARCH OBJECTIVE THREE ..................... 31 5.2 CONCLUSION ........................................................................................ ....... 32 5.3 RECOMMENDATION .................................................................................. 33 APPENDIX I .......................................................................................................... 3 5 QUESTIONNAIRE FOR HEAD 'TEACHERS ............... ............................... 35 APPENDIX II TEACHERS ................................... ............... ..... ........................ 37 APPENDIX III .................................................................................................... ... 40 INTERVIEW FOR EDUCATION OFFICERS ................ .............................. 40 v APPENDIX IV ....................................................................................................... 42 QUESTIONNAIRE FOR STUDENTS ............................................................ 42
CHAPTER ONE ] .. 1
INTRODUCTION
Since independence in 1963, education has been recognized as an important sector in Kenya, one of the major strategies of the past colonia l government was to ensure free primary Education (FPE), to realize this, edu cation was declared free. Free Primary Education became a reality when fees for entire primary education was abolished in 1978. However, with introduction of structural adjustment Programme, it led to the shift o the burden of the cost of education to parents. This reversed trend adversely affected access to quality basic education in the entire country. However, due to unequal social economic gender - built in most African societies, the scale of the disadvantaged tipped mor e against girls and women. This group is particularly disadvantaged in terms, of access, retention and p erformance in education.
