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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.
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Andrew Randa holds a PhD in Education, Master Degree in Education, Bachelor of Education, International Diploma of Educational Planning and Administration and Diploma in Education. He has worked as a classroom teacher and Teacher Educator for fifteen years. Currently, he is Dean of students at the Institute of Social Work, Dar es Salaam Tanzania.
