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Practice Brief
from How Distance Learning Centres can support expanding access to quality secondary school education
How Distance Learning Centres can support expanding access to quality secondary school education
Successful Transition and Advancement of Rights for Girls (STAR-G)
MOZAMBIQUE
2017 – 2021
This Practice Brief summarises a rapid, non-traditional approach that can be taken to alleviate the bottleneck between primary school graduation and limited secondary school places. It focuses on how a lack of secondary school infrastructure can be addressed through provision of Distance learning Centres (DLCs) which can expand access to secondary education, make it more widely available to marginalised groups and meet unmet demand. The brief highlights the learning from the Successful Transition and Advancement of Rights for Girls (STAR-G) project in Mozambique. Between April 2017 and June 2021, they piloted a Secondary Distance Learning Programme, implemented by Save the Children. The model implemented by STAR-G to alleviate the bottleneck was to establish 75 DLCs across three provinces of Mozambique which had low primary to secondary transition rates and high illiteracy rates.
This Practice Brief is useful for anyone interested in expanding secondary education opportunities though non-traditional routes in a rapid and timely manner, including NGOs, donors and planning/policy makers in Ministries of Education.