Research questions

CREATE is exploring five key clusters of questions:

• What are current patterns of access and exclusion, who are currently excluded from basic education at different stages, and why are they excluded?
• What strategies are most effective in meeting the basic educational needs of those who are excluded? To what extent are alternative forms of service delivery viable?
• What options are available to improve progression, completion and transition rates? How can drop before primary completion be reduced? How can re-entry of drop-outs be eased?
• What options exist to maintain and improve transition rates into lower secondary grades in pro-poor ways? What effects do declining transition rates have on primary completion?
• What are the political, social and economic conditions under which EFA has been achieved? Where progress has faltered what are the reasons for this? How has expanded access had an impact on social mobility and the intergenerational transmission of poverty?