The association of maternal nutrition and children's pre-primary experience with over-age attendance in secondary school

Akanksha A Marphatia, Jonathan C K Wells, Alice M Reid, Mario Cortina Borja, Dharma S Manandhar, Aman Sen, Naomi Saville, Delan Devakumar, David Osrin, Audrey Prost, Sophiya Dulal

OAI: oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/305151 • DOI: 10.17863/CAM.52232

•Over-age attendance is increasing but remains under-studied in South Asia.•Children fall behind by entering pre-primary or primary late, and by repeating a grade during/after primary school.•Rural location, thin and uneducated mothers predicted late pre-primary entry.•Educational research and interventions need to focus on the earlier time-point of pre-primary.•Improving maternal nutrition and education may ensure timely progression of children in school.