This evaluation assessed the extent to which the Samoa School Fee Grant Scheme had reduced financial barriers to primary school enrolment and had increased retention, whether improved learning outcomes had been achieved through an enhanced quality of education, and if school performance had improved against the Minimum Service Standards.

This evaluation of the partnership between the School of Education (SOE) at the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education (SICHE) and the University of Waikato was commissioned to examine the partnership from its inception in mid-2006 to its completion at the end of 2010, against both its original objectives and subsequent objectives that followed an...