Chapter 6 Conclusions and Recommendations
6.4 Conclusion
the determinants of a "safe" trip to school in order to understand more about the possible effectiveness of interventions in improving the safety of the journey to school.
Furthermore, a more expansive evaluation could establish outcome indicators that reflect the impact of transport provision on performance at school. Proxies for school performance might include drop-out rates, pass rates and subject marks. In addition, the collection of "supply-side" information would also improve the analysis.
Examples of this might include the quality of the baseline information about the schools in terms of equipment and teacher qualifications, as well as information on the transportation services that are available. The overall objective of the revised questionnaire in the context of a larger scale evaluation would be to model the causal relationships between different variables and outcome indicators so that specific outcomes can be reliably attributed to the intervention being tested.
riding in private vehicles are unsafe and have a negative impact on learners' well- being and their right to a quality basic education.
Most importantly, the evaluation has suggested that, if given the opportunity, learners will make use of buses and taxis in order to reduce their overall travel times and to improve the safety of their trip to school. The implication of these findings is that both provincial and national education and transportation departments must fulfil their constitutional obligations by ensuring that policies encourage the accessibility of public transport to the nation's learners. Access to the nation's schools by safe and efficient transport is critical to the accumulation of human capital by learners and is both a fundamental human right and an important component of sustainable poverty alleviation.
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