Abstract

Information about throughput rates is crucial to understanding, among others, an education system’s level of efficiency. Throughput rates provide insights into how quickly or slowly students move through the system. The slower the movement of students from enrolment to completion, the greater the cost to the system. Moreover, the slow movement of students through the system (which is caused largely by high levels of repetition) creates a bottleneck in the system, resulting in constraints to the number of new entrants admitted to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges.

This publication covers

• Background
• Definition & Methodology used to Calculate Throughput Rate
• Limitations
• Summary of Findings