Assessing the MDGs with regard to the EFA in Goma, the description of child schooling made it possible to show that the proportion of unschooled children aged 6-14 years in the surveyed households is of 25%. The situation is even amplified by the fact that 53. 5% of households acknowledge having children that dropped out of school in the 2013-2014 school year or in the previous years. Considering children’s lack of access to education, it transpires that the causes of their dropping out of school and exclusion from educational institutions are insolvency (59%), parents’ joblessness (47. 5%) and the lack of school-fees (52. 5%). In an illustrative manner, the majority of stakes are typically socio-economic.
Within the context of the achievement of the goals of education for all (EFA), it was recommended that we proceed, in each region of the world and even in each country with its different administrative units, to the assessment of both the expansion and the quality of EFA. This last type of assessments is crucial inasmuch as it is better not to educate people than to offer them a low quality education. It is with the concern for the assessment of the quality of EFA, in its section regarding primary schooling, that this research was undertaken. The aim was to find out the level of study where the loss of acquired knowledge in reading and writing was more perceptible between Swahili and French for students who drop out of school prematurely.
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