Abstract: Malawi primary education system is characterized by quite low levels of internal efficiency. Despite access to first grade of primary education being close to universal, the survival rates to the end of the cycle are very low with a completion rate of roughly 35%. High repetition rates have been reported as one major reason for the low completion rates of pupils. As a result various innovative reforms have been designed to ameliorate the efficiency of the system, and one of such reforms is the repetition policy. This paper retrospectively analyses the formulation and implementation of the primary school repetition policy using the stakeholder participation framework. The paper demonstrates how stakeholder participation is critical in the formulation and implementation of education reforms and argues that unless a wide range of stakeholders participate in the policy process, ambitious policies that take much time and effort to produce would never be successfully implemented.
Keywords: Repetition policy, Education reform, Policy formulation, Policy implementation, Stakeholder participation.
Title: A Retrospective Analysis of the Formulation and Implementation of the Primary School Repetition Policy in Malawi
Author: Wanangwa W.N. Chikazinga
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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