The persisting challenge of age-for-grade non-compliance in post-free primary education in Kenya

Edith Mukudi Omwami and Kimberly Foulds

Development in Practice, 2015, vol. 25, issue 6, 832-842

Abstract: This article examines the prevalence of non-compliance on the age-for-grade policy in the post-free primary education system in Kenya. We utilised data from the 2009 cohort of enrolled primary schoolchildren. The analysis revealed non-compliance to be a persisting concern in the school system, characterised by both under-age and over-age enrolment at the age-for-grade level of analysis in spite of the introduction of free primary education in 2003. Irrespective of the nature of non-compliance, overcrowding in the lower grades is more prevalent, with potential for adverse compromises in quality of learning and the attendant added dimension of the mismatched grade-for-age curricula.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2015.1064860

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