Child Labour and Governments Free Education Policy in Ayivu County, Arua District in Uganda

ABSTRACT 

This study examined the influence of child labour on government’s free education policy in Ayivu county, Arua District in Uganda. A self made questionnaire is used to collect data in order to obtain four research objectives; 1) to identify the profile of the respondents, 2) to determine the extend of child labour, 3) to establish the level of success of government’s free education policy, 4) to establish if child labour is significantly correlated with government’s free education policy. And the study used descriptive survey design in order to compare the extend of child labour to success of Government’s free education policy. The sample of this study was 126 respondents from five sub-counties in Ayivu county, Arua District. Key findings from the studies were: (1) the profile of the respondents found that male (73.8%) children dominated compared to female. Majority of the Children were within the age bracket of 11-29 years (52.4%). The children were among the family size of 5-8 people (35.7%) in a family. Most of the children were born in Arua district (90.5%). Twenty nine percent (28.6%) of the children had an educational level of secondary or 0. level, similarly twenty nine percent of the children resided in Pajulu sub county. Male (83.3%) teachers dominated in the research compared to female teachers and majority (97.6%) were born in Arua district. Almost twenty nine percent (28.6%) of the teachers where within the age bracket of 30-39 years and 40-49 years. In addition, most (40.5%) of the teachers had family size of 1-4 or 5-8 people. Furthermore, majority (69 %) of them had diploma certificates, and were class teachers (54.8%). In addition, almost seventy percent (69%) the teachers work in government schools and majority (33.3°k) were residents of Adumi. that majority of the children are employed because they want to improve their standard of living (mean=3.39). The result also indicated that farming is the most common activities the children are involved in (mean=3.29). In addition, one to three of family members under 18 years of age are employed (mean=3.17). Male children are mostly employed (mean=2.88).Furthermore, it was found that most of the children search for the work themselves (mean=3.24).Most of the children start to work from the age bracket of 15-16 years (mean=2.85).Their terms of employment is mostly on short/casual terms (mean=2,83)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preliminaries Page

DECLARATION A

DECLARATION B ii

DEDICATION iii

ABSTRACT iv

Chapter Page

One THE PROBLEM AND ITSSCOPE 1

Background of the study 1

Statement of the Problem 9

Purpose of the study 12

Research objectives 10

Research Questions 10

Null Hypotheses 11

Scope 13

Significance of the study 13

Operational definitions of key Terms 14

Two REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 15

Concepts, Opinions, Ideas from Authors! Experts 15

Related studies 16

Theoretical Perspectives 25

Three RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 27

Research Design 27

Area and Population of Study 27

Sample Frame Work 28

Sample Size 28

Sample Techniques 32

Sampling Procedures 30

Research Instrument 30

Validity and Reliability of the Instrument 31

Data Collection procedures 32

Data Analysis 33

Ethical Considerations 34

Limitation of the study 35

Four PRESENTATION, INTERPRETATION AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS 37

Five SUMMARY OF THE KEY FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 49

Summary of the Findings and Discussions 49

Conclusion 52

Recommendations 52

Other Areas for Future Research 54

References

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I Letter of Certification 58

APPENDIX II A: Transmittal Letter 59

APPENDIX II B: Transmittal Letter for the respondents 60

APPENDIX Ill: CLEARANCE FROM ETHICS COMMITTEE 61

APPENDIX IV: INFORMED CONSENT 62

APPENDIX V: QUESTIONNAIRES 63

APPENDIX VI: WORK SCHEDULE 72

APPENDIX VII: PROPOSED RESEARCH BUDGET 73

APPENDIX VIII Curriculum Vitae 74