Tag: urban education
Studies which find that enrolment rates are higher in urban areas than rural areas are likely to mask the high numbers of children who are out of school in urban areas. Slums often have dense populations where access to education is poor. Education is needed to break the poverty cycle in urban areas and increase… Read more
Poverty is urbanizing. After 2008, more people live in urban than rural areas of the world. While the global number of poor is on the decline, an increasing number of people live in urban slums. Education strategies have generally given priority to underserved rural areas. Underneath this priority lies a fear that investments in slums… Read more
This unpublished document aims to set out a research agenda on education and urban poverty. It starts by giving a brief background: why is urban poverty increasingly important, and why for education in particular? Despite the wide variation across contexts, there are common threads which are described in the types of disadvantage in education faced… Read more