Challenges and Opportunities to Meet Universal Primary Education in South West Shoa Zone of Oro Mia Region

Mamo, Adane (2007) Challenges and Opportunities to Meet Universal Primary Education in South West Shoa Zone of Oro Mia Region. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

The IlHllll pu rpose of this study \\,, \S l ) il1w sligalc chall cnges and OPPOrLun it ics found in South West Shoa Zone to thc succc. s of UPE. To thi s cnd, desc rip tive survey methodology was cmployed. Both primary a nd secondary s ources were u sed to gather relevant data for the study. The dala coll ected from both sources were a nalyzed using percentage and mean. Primary data were coll ected from teachers, directors, OEB Offici als, Zonal and Wercdas Education offi cials, and Zonal Women Affair Offici als using in strum ents lik e qucs ti onnaires, interview and di scussion. Totally 279 respondents were sel ec ted Llsing availability and purposive sampling techniques invol ved in thi s study. Relevant documents from MOE, OEB and Zonal • Education offices were the major sources of secondary data. The finding of this research ind icated that since 2003/04 till 2006/07 the AIR, NIR, GER, NER are declining and are below the national and region al average, which is a challenge to achieve UPE. Drop out is also found to be one of the problems of the education system in the Zone. The main , constraints for this less participation in the PE were found to be socio-economic, sociocultural and school intrinsic factors . In spite of this fact, ever increasing of the awareness of the communities towards education, the presence of commitments of all concerned bodies to UPE, the special attention given to girl.s' education and administrative/institutional capacities are found to be the major opportunities available in the Zone to the success UPE in the Zone. To tackle the problems mentioned ab<?ve, it is also recommended that the ZEO 111 collaboration with pertinent stakeholders should strengthen the provision of ABEP,S EP and alternative pre primary education programs; ways should be designed to miti gate the socio- cultural,socio- economic and school intrinsic problems la collaborative efforts-am-ong all concerned bodies and out of school children should b brought to school by the new Ethiopian Millennium. The pro ision of non- form al and basic eoucation program ' shou ld be expanded and be available both ~_ r adults and cliildren .A persistent and c(i llaborati ve campaign to cilallge the art ilude and awarcn"ss of the communities to'Aa-rd the val ue of educalion should be und l; rtaken hy all concerned bodies.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Africana
Depositing User: Kabiru Wallace Ndung'u
Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2019 12:22
Last Modified: 06 Sep 2019 12:22
URI: http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/9575

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