We are in the era of free education but majority of children from the urban poor are excluded

project brief.indd We are in the era of free education but majority of children from the urban poor are excluded POLICY BRIEF | 2024 We are in the era of free education but majority of children from the urban poor are excluded Evidence The African Population and Health Research Center 47 % (APHRC) research has shown that at least 47% of children from major urban slums in Kenya attend of children f. [...] “ 1 We are in the era of free education but majority of children from the urban poor are excluded Introduction The UN-HABITAT estimates that 60-70% of Nairobi’s Asking ourselves these questions is important because population reside in the slums, the first stop for young of two things: people coming to the city in search of a bright future. [...] did you go to a public or private school, and was it by choice? Whichever is the case, who paid for your education? 2 We are in the era of free education but majority of children from the urban poor are excluded The Exclusion Conundrum In the case of exclusion, how would one describe a This exclusion is made worse by the quota system of scenario where children from poor households living admission. [...] performers from the up-market will take up most of the places for the private primary school quota The concern here is not about the least poor receiving or for the Nairobi quota due to the strong positive FPE subsidies; in fact, to the contrary – they are fully relationship between academic performance and entitled to that, and as Kenyans say, ‘your neighbor’s social, economic background. [...] “ 3 We are in the era of free education but majority of children from the urban poor are excluded Private Education Providers in Urban Slums Policy Recommendations On the other hand,– private providers of education in A number of homegrown strategies can be put in the urban slums are diverse and driven by different place, including: motives e.g.