Education for all: How to pass the 2015 grade?

3ie Brief No. 15, July 2010

Conditional cash transfers, exemption of school fees and school feeding programmes have generally been found to have a positive impact on primary school enrolment rates. But these programmes have had a limited and a varied effect in different contexts on keeping children in education. Getting more children into schools is not very helpful if the quality of education is poor, children do not attend school regularly and drop out eventually. And we need more clarity on what works and in which context, to ensure ‘Education for All’.