Physical access to schooling in South Africa: Mapping dropout, repetition and age-grade progression in two districts

Comparative Education

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 251-263

  Motala, Shireen ^a   Dieltiens, Veerle ^a   Sayed, Yusuf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION POLICY; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MAPPING; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; PRIMARY EDUCATION; PUBLIC ACCESS; RETURNS TO EDUCATION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 70449371368     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: 13600486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050060902920948     Document Type: Article

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