Three approaches

1. Three approaches

2. Before the free education programme was introduced, the teachers were busy with the pupils; now, they know there is no money coming in, so they are not really concerned. Here, [in the private school] the teacher is busy with the children from morning to evening and there, [in the government school] you find that the teachers do not teach the way they used to. “If you are offered free fruit and vegetables at the market, you know they will be rotten. If you want fresh produce, then you have to pay for it. You will never see [in a private school] a teacher working on something else like sewing a sweater while he or she supposed to be in class. In the government school they say it is free education and the teachers find it so easy, because they know there is no one going to check up what they are doing. Kenya - Kibera Parental Views

3. Talking to parents

4. Survey of INPUTS – pupil/teacher ratio Pupil-teacher ratios

5. Survey of INPUTS – teacher activity

6. Survey of INPUTS – drinking water

7. Survey of +24,000 children

8. Average raw scores - Private schools outperform government ones

9. Better resourced? “…there is little hard evidence to substantiate the view that private schools systematically outperform public schools with comparable levels of financial resources” Oxfam Education Report, UNDP

10. …at a fraction of teacher cost