ABSTRACT 

The general objective of the study was to determine the causes of school drop out on girls in Bokhayo Central zone, Busia District, Kenya and come up with possible strategies to solve the problem. In the collection of data, all sources viewed relevant to this particular study were revisited and employed. This study used a descriptive cross sectional survey. The research used both the qualitative and quantitative analysis approaches in order to get a bigger picture both in number and data. Since the main purpose of the study was to determine the factors that hindered girls' accessibility of education which was blamed more on socio-economic factors. Girls were found to perform as well as boys so performance does not contribute to girls dropping out school., It was established that nutrition was very important to the growth and development of a child and that poor nutrition led to diseases hence poor school attendance leading. It was recommended that both the parents and the community should be sensitized on the importance of proper and stable family background and how they influence child development Parents should make sure that they provide food for their children as they go to school so that they do

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION ..................................................................................... .i

APPROVAL ....................................................................................................................... ii

DEDICATION ................................................................................................................... iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................................. iii

TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................... v

ABSTRACT ..................................................................................................................... vii

CHAPTER ONE ................................................................................................................ 8

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 8

1.1 Back ground of the Study .............................................................................................. 8

1.2 Statement of the Problem .............................................................................................. 9

1.3 Objectives of Study ....................................................................................................... 9

1.3.1 General Objective ....................................................................................................... 9

1.4 Research Questions ...................................................................................................... I 0

1.5 Scope of the Study ....................................................................................................... 10

1.6 Significance of the Study ............................................................................................. 10

1.7 Definition ofterms ....................................................................................................... 11

CHAPTER TWO ............................................................................................................. 12

LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................................................... 12

2.0 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 12

2.1.1. Magnitude and Impact of Education Inequality ...................................................... 12

2.2 Parents Attitudes and Drop out of Girls ...................................................................... 13

2.3 School Environment and Drop out of Girls ................................................................. 14

2.4 Traditional Practices and Drop out ofGirls ................................................................. 14

CHAPTER THREE ......................................................................................................... 16

METHODOLOGY .......................................................................................................... 16

3. I Research design ........................................................................................................... 16

3.2. Scope of the study ....................................................................................................... 16

3.3. Instrnments of data collection ..................................................................................... 16

3.4. Reliability of instrnments ........................................................................................... 16

3.5. Data collection procedure ........................................................................................... 17

3.6. Statistical treatment of data ........................................................................................ 17

CHAPTER FOUR ........................................................................................................... 18

FINDINGS AND INTERPRETATIONS ...................................................................... 18

4.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 18

4.2 Profile of the respondents ............................................................................................ 18

4.3 Parents level ofeducation ............................................................................................ 19

4.4 Social economic factors ............................................................................................... 20

CHAPTER FIVE ............................................................................................................. 29

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ................................... 29

5.0. Introduction ................................................................................................................. 29

5.1. Summary ..................................................................................................................... 29

5.2. Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 30

5.3. Recommendations ....................................................................................................... 30

5.4 Suggestions for further research .................................................................................. 30

REFERENCES ................................................................................................................ 31

APPENDICES .................................................................................................................. 33

APPENDIX A: .................................................................................................................. 33

QUESTIONNAIRE TO THE TEACHERS ...................................................................... 33