Publications - Pathways to Access Series (PTAs)

The Pathways to Access research monographs is a series of papers which capture analytic insights into educational access on a wide range of access issues determined by CREATE’s research partners. PTAs include research on: changing patterns of access, retention and drop out; multiple providers; planning, finance and resources; policy dialogue and policy analysis; vulnerability including health, nutrition, disability and migration; educational management, governance and school processes; social equity and communities.

• PTA 75 Primary Education in Rural Bangladesh: Degrees of Access, Choice, and Participation of the Poorest
  Author: Christine Sommers
  Date: February 2013
• PTA 74 Participation and Performance in Education in Sub-Saharan Africa with special reference to Kenya: Improving Policy and Practice
  Authors: K. M. Lewin, P. Wasanga, E. Wanderi, A. Somerset
  Date: November 2011
• PTA 73 Access, Attendance and Achievement in Rural Schools in Sri Lanka
  Authors: Angela W. Little, H.N. Upul Indika, Caine Rolleston
  Date: November 2011
• PTA 72 Access, Transitions and Equity in Education in Ghana: Researching Practice, Problems and Policy
  Author: Kwame Akyeampong, Caine Rolleston, Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, Keith M Lewin
  Date: January 2012
• PTA 71 (Re)Assessing the Impact of School Capitation Grants on Educational Access in Ghana
  Author: Kwame Akyeampong
  Date: July 2011
• PTA 70 Re-entry to School after Giving Birth: An Evaluation of the Process used to Design and Implement Policy in Zambia
  Author: Audrey Mwansa
  Date: August 2011
• PTA 69 Quality Low-Fee Private Schools for the Rural Poor: Perception or reality? Evidence from Southern Ghana
  Author: Luke Akaguri
  Date: May 2011
• PTA 68 The Impact of Malnutrition on Access to Primary Education: Case Studies from Ghana
  Author: Christiana Buxton
  Date: July 2011
• PTA 67 The Interactions Between Global Education Initiatives and National Education Policy and Planning Processes: A Comparative Case Study of the Education For All Fast Track Initiative in Rwanda and Ethiopia
  Authors: Desmond Bermingham
  Date: July 2011
• PTA 66 Understanding the Social and Economic Lives of Never-enrolled Children: A Case Study of Communities in Northern and Southern Ghana
  Authors: Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, Christine Adu-Yeboah
  Date: March 2011
• PTA 65 Overcoming Exclusion Through Quality Schooling
  Authors: R.Govinda, Madhumita Bandyopadhyay
  Date: June 2011
• PTA 64 The Role of Maternal Education During Educational Expansion for Children in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Authors: Ricardo Sabates, Jimena Hernandez Fernandez, Keith M Lewin
  Date: May 2011
• PTA 63 Secondary Education in India: Development Policies, Programmes and Challenges
  Author: K. Biswal
  Date: April 2011
• PTA 62 The Health and Education Benefits of Universal Primary Education for the Next Generation: Evidence from Tanzania
  Authors: Ricardo Sabates, Jo Westbrook,
  Jimena Hernandez-Fernandez
  Date: May 2011
• PTA 61 Education and Change in Rich, Poor and National Minority Areas in China: Two Decades of Transition Authors: Keith M Lewin, Wang Lu
  Date: April 2011
• PTA 60 "If God wills next year I will send her back to school": The Effects of Child and Parental Illness on School Participation in Rural Ethiopia
  Author: Kate Orkin
  Date: March 2011
• PTA 59 Fosterage and Access to Schooling in Savelugu-Nanton, Ghana
  Author: Caine Rolleston
  Date: April 2011
• PTA 58 South Asian Nomads - A Literature Review
  Author: Anita Sharma
  Date: Jan 2011
• PTA 57 The Sector-wide Approach in Bangladesh Primary Education: A Critical View
  Author: Manzoor Ahmed
  Date: Jan 2011
• PTA 56 Politics and the Dilemma of Meaningful Access to Education: The Nigerian Story
  Author: Pai Obanya
  Date: Jan 2011
• PTA 55 Dropping Out of School in Southern Ghana: The Push-out and Pull-out Factors
  Author: Eric Ananga
  Date: Jan 2011
• PTA 54 Taking Targets to Task Revisited: How Indicators of Progress on Access to Education can Mislead
  Author: Keith M Lewin
  Date: Jan 2011
• PTA 53 Beyond Universal Access to Elementary Education in India: Is it Achievable at Affordable Costs?
  Author: Keith M Lewin
  Date: Jan 2011
• PTA 52 Changing Patterns of Access to Education in Anglophone and Francophone Countries in Sub Saharan Africa: Is Education for All Pro-Poor?
  Author: Keith M Lewin & Ricardo Sabates
  Date: Jan 2011
• PTA 51 Poverty, Equity and Access to Education in Bangladesh
  Author: Altaf Hossain & Benjamin Zeitlyn
  Date: Dec 2010
• PTA 50 Can Families in Rural India Bear the Additional Burden of Secondary Education? Investigating the Determinants of Transition
  Author: Gaurav Siddhu
  Date: Nov 2010
• PTA 49 School Drop Out in Bangladesh: New Insights from Longitudinal Evidence
  Author: Ricardo Sabates, Altaf Hossain, Keith M. Lewin
  Date: Oct 2010
• PTA 48 Age in Grade Congruence and Progression in Basic Education in Bangladesh
  Author: Altaf Hossain
  Date: Oct 2010
• PTA 47 Seeds of Their Struggle: The Features of Under- and Overage Enrolment Among Grade 4 Learners in South Africa
  Author: Nick Taylor, Thabo Mabogoane, Jennifer Shindler, Bina Akoobhai
  Date: Oct 2010
• PTA 46 Exploring the Viability of School-Based Support for Vulnerable Children: A case study of two township schools in Johannesburg
  Author: Samantha E. Williams
  Date: Oct 2010
• PTA 45 Access to and Exclusion from Primary Education in Slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh
  Author: Stuart Cameron
  Date: Sept 2010
• PTA 44 Access to Elementary Education in India: Politics, Policies and Progress
  Author: Angela W. Little
  Date: Sept 2010
• PTA 43 Teachers and Access to Schooling in Ghana
  Author/s: Seidu Alhassan
  Vincent Adzahlie-Mensah
  Date: Sept 2010
• PTA 42 Access to Basic Education in Ghana: Politics, Policies and Progress
  Author: Angela Little
  Date: Aug 2010
• PTA 41 Bullying and School Attendance: A Case Study of Senior High School Students in Ghana
  Author/s: Máiréad Dunne
  Cynthia Bosumtwi-Sam
  Ricardo Sabates
  Andrew Owusu
  Date: July 2010
• PTA 40 School Dropouts or Pushout? Overcoming Barriers for the Right to Education
  Author/s: Anugula N. Reddy
  Shantha Sinha
  Date: July 2010
• PTA 39 Girls' Access to Education in China: Actors, Cultures and the Windmill of Development Management
  Author: Xiaojun Grace Wang
  Date: July 2010
  
• PTA 38 The Politics, Policies and Progress of Basic Education in Sri Lanka
  Author: Angela Little
  Date: June 2010
• PTA 37 Free Primary Education and After in Kenya: Enrolment impact, quality effects, and the transition to secondary school (Summary)
  Authors: Moses Oketch & Anthony Somerset
  Date: May 2010
• PTA 36 Including Disabled Children in Learning: Challenges in Developing Countries (Summary)
  Authors: Alison Croft
  Date: June 2010
• PTA 35 Changing Framework of Local Governance and Community Participation in Elementary Education in India (Summary)
  Authors: R. Govinda & Madhumita Bandyopadyhay
  Date: May 2010
• PTA 34 Debating Diversity in Provision of Universal Primary Education in Bangladesh (Summary)
  Authors: Zia-Us-Sabur & Manzoor Ahmed
  Date: May 2010
• PTA 33 50 Years of Educational Progress and Challenge in Ghana (Summary)
  Author: Kwame Akyeampong
  Date: April 2010
• PTA 32 Access to What? Access, Diversity and Participation in India's schools (Summary)
  Author: Nalini Juneja
  Date: April 2010
• PTA 31 Seasonality and Access to Education: the case of primary education in sub-Saharan Africa (Summary)
  Author: Sierd Hadley
  Date: April 2010
• PTA 30 Expanding Support for Education in Fragile States: what role for Fast Track Initiative? (Summary)
  Authors: Victoria Turrent
  Date: Sept 2009
• PTA 29 The Pearl of Great Price: achieving equitable access to primary and secondary education and enhancing learning in Sri Lanka (Summary)
  Authors: Harsha Aturupane
  Date: March 2009
• PTA 28 Distress Seasonal Migration and its Impact on Children’s Education (Summary)
  Authors: Smita
  Date: May 2008
• PTA 27 School participation from ‘Birth-to-Twenty’:  Patterns of schooling in an urban child cohort study in South Africa (Summary)
  Authors: Brahm Fleish and Jennifer Shindler
  Date: June 2009
• PTA 26 Size Matters for EFA (Summary)(Link to documentary on Teachers TV 22/03/2010) (Summary)
  Authors: Angela Little
  Date: April 2008
• PTA 25 Malnourishment among Children in India: Linkages with Cognitive Development and School Participation
  Authors: Neelam Sood
  Date: Oct 2010
• PTA 24 The Impact of Language on Educational Access in South Africa (Summary)
  Authors: Michel Lafon
  Date: Nov 2009
• PTA 23 School choice for the poor? The limits of marketisation of primary education in rural India (Summary)
  Authors: Joanna Härmä
  Date: Jan 2010
• PTA 22 Human Capital, Poverty, Educational Access and Exclusion: The Case of Ghana 1991-2006 (Summary)
  Authors: Caine Rolleston 
  Date: Jan 2009
• PTA 21 Does free secondary education enable the poor to gain access? A study from rural Kenya (Summary)
  Authors: Asayo Ohba
  Date: May 2009
• PTA 20 EFA, The Quality Imperative and the Problem of Pedagogy (Summary)
  Authors: Robin Alexander
  Date: April 2008
• PTA 19 Education and Social Equity: With a Special Focus on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Elementary Education (Summary)
  Authors: Mona Sedwal & Sangeeta Kamat
  Date: May 2008
• PTA 18 Gender Equity in Education: A Review of Trends and Factors (Summary)
  Authors: Madhumita Bandyopadhyay & Ramya Subrahmanian
  Date: April 2008
• PTA 17 Small, Multigrade Schools and Increasing Access to Primary Education in India: National Context and NGO Initiatives (Summary)
  Authors: Nicole Blum & Rashmi Diwan
  Date: Oct 2007
• PTA 16 Dropping Out from School: A Cross Country Review of the Literature (Summary)
  Authors: Frances Hunt
  Date: May 2008
• PTA 15 Inclusive Education in India: Interpretation, Implementation, and Issues (Summary)
  Authors: Katharine Giffard-Lindsay
  Date: Sept 2007
• PTA 14 Negotiating Education for Many: Enrolment, Dropout and Persistence in the Community Schools of Kolondieba, Mali (Summary)
  Authors: Peter Laugharn
  Date: Sept 2007
• PTA 13 EFA Politics, Policies and Progress (Summary)
  Authors: Angela Little
  Date: March 2008
• PTA 12 Financing Basic Education in Bangladesh (Summary)
  Authors: Samer-Al Samarrai
  Date: June 2007
• PTA 11 A Review of Concepts from Policy Studies Relevant to the Analysis of EFA in Developing Countries (Summary)
  Authors: Marie Lall
  Date: March 2007
• PTA 10 Policies on Free Primary and Secondary Education in East Africa (Summary)
  Authors: Moses Oketch & Caine Rolleston
  Date: June 2007
• PTA 9 A Preliminary Note on Kenya Primary School Enrolment Trends over Four Decades (Summary)
  Authors: Anthony Somerset
  Date: June 2007
• PTA 8 Expanding Access to Secondary Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Planning and Finance Issues (Summary)
  Authors: Keith M Lewin
  Date: June 2007
• PTA 7 Long Term Planning for EFA and the MDGs: Modes and Mechanisms (Summary)
  Authors: Keith M Lewin
  Date: June 2007
• PTA 6 School Processes, Local Governance and Community Participation: Understanding Access (Summary)
  Authors: Mairead Dunne, Kwame Akyeampong & Sara Humphreys
  Date: July 2007
• PTA 5 The Limits to Growth of Non-Government Private Schooling in Sub Saharan Africa (Summary)
  Authors: Keith M Lewin
  Date: June 2007
• PTA 4 Supporting Non-state Providers in Basic Education Service Delivery (Summary)
  Authors: Pauline Rose
  Date: June 2007
• PTA 3 NGO Provision of Basic Education: Alternative or Complementary Service Delivery to Support Access to the Excluded? (Summary)
  Authors: Pauline Rose
  Date: June 2007
• PTA 2 The Impact of Health on Education Access and Achievement: A Cross-National Review of the Research Evidence (Summary)
  Authors: Pat Pridmore
  Date: June 2007
• PTA 1 Improving Access, Equity and Transitions in Education: Creating a Research Agenda (Summary)
  Authors: Keith M Lewin
  Date: June 2007