Differential Impact of Primary Education Development Programmes

The objectives of study were to examine the differential enrolment rates, retention rates, dropout rates, and the academic performance of pupils. The study revealed that these programmes led to differential impacts on pupils' enrolment such that between years 2002 and 2006, it increased by 18.4 percent for boys and 16.8 percent for girls, dropout rate throughout the programmes was low as 1.17 percent for Morogoro Rural and Urban Districts, retention rates of girls were higher in Morogoro Urban District (95.7) than Morogoro Rural District (80.4), and the same trend was observed among boys, where retention in Morogoro Urban District was 93.9 and Morogoro Rural District was 78.5. There was no significant difference in boys¿ academic performance between the PEDP 1 and II as p Value = 0.240 > 0.05, while in girls¿ performance, there was significant difference as P Value = 0.002 < 0.05. The study concluded that Primary Education Development Programmes, through capitation grants, had direct and significant impact on pupils¿ enrolment, retention and performance in schools.