Having spent many months collecting and organising my literature review it is time to make a start. The principal sections are listed as follows:

1) Context: Political, Social and Economic landscape. What are the charactistics of poverty in Ghana
2) Poverty and Education: Establishing the formal connection made by the UN/EFA. Describing the emergence of private schools in Ghana. Identifying the group of children excluded from education and the reasons for there omission.
3) Education Policy Development: How has the formal education structure and curriculum developed in Ghana since the arrival of the first foreign traders in the 16th century. Reference is made to the use of the Monitorial system in the early 19th century (Graham, 1971)
4) African Culture: What is the nature of traditional education. How does if differ from the formal structure and was is the impact of learning in a second language, in this case English.
5) PAL Intervention: What is the theoretical basis of peer tutoring and what are the potential benefits in the given context.