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Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity (CREATE)

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The Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity (CREATE) is a DFID-funded research programme established in 2006, looking at access to basic education in developing countries. Over 100 million children in the developing world remain excluded from primary school and over 250 million fail to access secondary schooling to grade 9. CREATE looks at access to education specifically in India, Bangladesh, South Africa and Ghana. Its aim is to increase access to knowledge and capabilities that can reduce poverty and enhance progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

CREATE uses an expanded vision of meaningful access which includes: attendance rates, progression through grades with little or no repetition and learning outcomes that confirm that basic skills are being mastered.

It also highlights a number of zones of educational exclusion : Zone 1 children include those who have never attended school. Zone 2 consists of children who have dropped out before completing the primary grades. Zone 3 relates to children enrolled at primary level at risk of exclusion and non-completion. Zone 4 focuses on children below the age of 15 who fail to make the transition into lower secondary schooling or its alternatives. Zone 5 contains those children who drop out of secondary grades and fail to complete the cycle. Zone 6 includes those at risk in secondary schooling who attend irregularly, fail to learn at appropriate levels and who are at risk of drop out. Zone 0 includes those children who have no access to pre-school.