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Dorcas Simiyu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ASSESSMENT OF ALLOCATION OF CONSTITUENCY BURSARY FUNDS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KENYA, A CASE OF BUMULA CONSTITUENCY, BUNGOMA COUNTY, KENYA
European Journal of Education Studies, 2017Co-Authors: Wambua Kyalo Benjamin, Saina Shandrack, Dorcas SimiyuAbstract:Secondary school education is very critical in any education system because of the crucial role it plays in catalyzing national development. Consequently, maintaining a high student enrolment at this level should be a priority for all countries. The Constituency Bursary Fund (CBF) was established by the government of Kenya through an act of parliament in 2003 to ensure that the needy students have access to secondary education. This fund provides for the involvement of community members in identifying the bursary recipients. With the communal involvement in decision-making, it was anticipated that there would be fairness and efficiency in the bursary allocation process. Contrary to the high expectations however, cases of complaints about the implementation of the constituency bursary fund are many. The purpose of the study was to determine adherence to the established criteria in allocating bursaries influences retention in secondary school. This study was guided by the following objectives namely: To examine the criteria used by the constituency bursary fund committee to allocate bursaries to the recipients in the constituency; To determine the level of inequality in the allocation of bursaries to recipients in the constituency.; To establish how constituency bursary fund influenced students’ retention in secondary school, To find out the problems encountered by the bursary allocation committee when allocating bursaries to the recipients. This study adopted descriptive survey design using mixed approach methodology. This study was guided by the theory of Socialist Economics of education. The target population for this study comprised of the 1 DEO, 30 school principals, 120 class teachers, 14 CBF committee members and 1500 form three students. The study adopted both probability and non-probability samplings design to determine sample size. Quantitative data was collected through questionnaire and qualitative data through interview and document analysis. The quantitative data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. (Pearson Correlation Coefficient) Qualitative data was thematically classified and arranged before they were reported in narrations and quotations. Constituency Bursary Committee officials indicated that the total amount of bursary is distributed equally between the 19 wards in the constituency. There is a significant relationship between Adequacy of CBF and Retention in Secondary Schools. Among the challenges faced in the provision of CDF bursaries is the high geographical mobility of urban dwellers which lead to lack of detailed information about them. Article visualizations:
Vincent Barnett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Tugan-Baranovskii's vision of an international Socialist economy
The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2000Co-Authors: Vincent BarnettAbstract:This article examines a hitherto neglected book published in 1918 by M. I. Tugan-Baranovskii, which is devoted to outlining his vision of an international Socialist economy. It focuses on Tugan's approach to economic planning, money and prices in socialism, and the new international economic order. It is shown that Tugan attempted to assimilate marginalism into his vision of planning, and was more flexible than the Bolsheviks in adapting Socialist Economics to the task at hand. The reception of Tugan's approach is also briefly sketched, as is the context of the Socialist calculation debate.
Wambua Kyalo Benjamin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ASSESSMENT OF ALLOCATION OF CONSTITUENCY BURSARY FUNDS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KENYA, A CASE OF BUMULA CONSTITUENCY, BUNGOMA COUNTY, KENYA
European Journal of Education Studies, 2017Co-Authors: Wambua Kyalo Benjamin, Saina Shandrack, Dorcas SimiyuAbstract:Secondary school education is very critical in any education system because of the crucial role it plays in catalyzing national development. Consequently, maintaining a high student enrolment at this level should be a priority for all countries. The Constituency Bursary Fund (CBF) was established by the government of Kenya through an act of parliament in 2003 to ensure that the needy students have access to secondary education. This fund provides for the involvement of community members in identifying the bursary recipients. With the communal involvement in decision-making, it was anticipated that there would be fairness and efficiency in the bursary allocation process. Contrary to the high expectations however, cases of complaints about the implementation of the constituency bursary fund are many. The purpose of the study was to determine adherence to the established criteria in allocating bursaries influences retention in secondary school. This study was guided by the following objectives namely: To examine the criteria used by the constituency bursary fund committee to allocate bursaries to the recipients in the constituency; To determine the level of inequality in the allocation of bursaries to recipients in the constituency.; To establish how constituency bursary fund influenced students’ retention in secondary school, To find out the problems encountered by the bursary allocation committee when allocating bursaries to the recipients. This study adopted descriptive survey design using mixed approach methodology. This study was guided by the theory of Socialist Economics of education. The target population for this study comprised of the 1 DEO, 30 school principals, 120 class teachers, 14 CBF committee members and 1500 form three students. The study adopted both probability and non-probability samplings design to determine sample size. Quantitative data was collected through questionnaire and qualitative data through interview and document analysis. The quantitative data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. (Pearson Correlation Coefficient) Qualitative data was thematically classified and arranged before they were reported in narrations and quotations. Constituency Bursary Committee officials indicated that the total amount of bursary is distributed equally between the 19 wards in the constituency. There is a significant relationship between Adequacy of CBF and Retention in Secondary Schools. Among the challenges faced in the provision of CDF bursaries is the high geographical mobility of urban dwellers which lead to lack of detailed information about them. Article visualizations:
Paul Cockshott - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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REVIEW: THE DEVELOPMENT OF Socialist ECONOMIC THOUGHT
2009Co-Authors: Paul CockshottAbstract:Dobb was the most prominent Marxian political economist in Britain during the middle years of the 20th century. He was actively writing from the early 1920s to the 1970s. In this short book 1 , Brian Pollitt has brought together a number of publications from the last period of Dobbs life some of which have never appeared before in English. Taken together they give a revealing insight into the thoughts of an erudite Western Marxist as he tried to report on and come to terms with the economic debates going on in Eastern Europe at that time. It is impossible now to read these articles without a certain sense of pathos engendered by hindsight. Dobb died in 1976 a mere 15 years or so before the final crisis of hithertoo existing socialism. The topics that he discusses in these essays: the role of markets versus plans, centralisation versus decentralisation, pricing policies, etc, came to the fore during the Gorbachov period and counter revolutionary process of the late 1980s. One can not read Dobbs commentary from the 1960s and ’70s without reflecting on the eventual political trajectory of the ’reform’ currents that he discusses. At the same time one is brought face to face with the real limits on conceptualisation and policy that existed in those days. One comes to see just how the arguments of the reform school, arguing for the relaxation of planning disciplines and a greater role for market forces within Socialist economies would have seemed plausible even to Dobb. I say even to Dobb, and because in previous decades he had been a strong advocate of the benefits of Socialist planning and because the last page of his article on planning reveals that his concession to the market remained reluctant. In the rest of my review I will criticise what, in restrospect, seem weaknesses in Dobb’s arguments. But this does not mean that you should not read his book. It is well worth reading, in order to understand the debate on Socialist Economics thirty or forty years ago. 1. Socialist THOUGHT
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Information and Economics: A Critique of Hayek
1997Co-Authors: Paul Cockshott, Allin CottrellAbstract:Neither the theoretical arguments put forward in the West, nor the fact of the collapse of Soviet socialism, historic landmark as it undoubtedly is, warrant the belief that Socialist economic planning tout court is an untenable notion whose time has passed. Indeed, modern developments in information technology open up the possibility of a planning system that could outperform the market in terms of efficiency (in meeting human needs) as well as equity. Such are the claims that we have defended in a number of recent publications, designed to re-open a debate over Socialist Economics. We do not expect that our ideas will meet with immediate political success, but we do venture to hope that open-minded economists will consider our economic arguments on their merits. We do not intend to reiterate our general arguments in favour of planning here. Our object is to refute the objections to Socialist plan-
Katsuji Nakagane - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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"A Note on the Theory of "Socialist Market Economy": @The Materialistic View of History in the Twilight"(in Japanese)
CIRJE J-Series, 1997Co-Authors: Katsuji NakaganeAbstract:It is widely recognized in China, and even among some western economists, that the experiment undergoing with a title of "Socialist market economy" has put spurs to its economy with the result that it not only has saved socialism but its international status has been raised much higher. The theory of Socialist market economy, which is called a creature by Deng Xiaoping, is highly praised in China as a great breakthrough of Socialist economic theory. It is unique in that the market mechanism is utilized to a full extent while public ownership is still held as a basic property right system. On the other hand, this theory is criticized for having sacrificed some essence of Marxist original ideas of socialism, or having mixed unnaturally the two contradictory elements in economic system, i.e. market mechanism and public proprietorship. Originally, Marx and Lenin imagined that the socialism which must have appeared after capitalism had to be a system without market, but fully and easily planned by people, without the state as a classless society, and with much more freedom and democracy than in capitalism. This scenario was based on the well known proposition: historical development is determined by a law of dialectic materialism. Needless to say, this proposition proved to be unrealized. Particularly contrary to Marx's prophecy, the Socialist revolutions occurred not in advanced capitalist countries, but in less developed areas like Russia and China. In practice, the state continued to exist, even more strengthened. The new class structure was created. The market, which was abolished at first, gradually replaced planning. However, this proposition is still definitely indispensable for Socialist regimes, since the ideology-oriented communist party, can be authorized for its dictatorship in the political scene on the basis of this "scientifically true" theory of human history. The history of "real socialism" is a history of a gap between the theory and reality. As this gap becomes wider, however, the people are not motivated by Socialist ideology. This ideology is being regarded just as hypocrisy. China's economy was developed because it reintroduced the market, rather than because it is Socialist. No matter how it is rationalized along the line of Marxist theory, the Socialist market system was the farthest form from the vision of socialism Marx and others had originally in mind. It may be a final testimony of the collapse of the materialistic view of history. In this paper, we briefly trace the historical development of Socialist economic theory, from Marx to the East European reformers like Brus and Ota Sik, then the process of changing Socialist Economics in China since the early 1980's, and finally consider what weaknesses a Socialist system has both in theory and practice.