Uganda: Education
Zoe Georgouses
MIni paper 2
Imagine going to a school were the teachers don’t show up and the majority of the grade fails. This is what the children of Uganda deal with every day. Uganda’s education system is bad. They have high failure rates and the parents of the children don’t want them getting an education.
Uganda has high failure rates. The reason they have high failure rates is because they have a lack of adequate facilities, laboratories, and teachers. High teacher absenteeism is common in Uganda. A quarter of the teachers in sampled schools countrywide were found to be absent during surprise visits. The Uganda National Examinations board recently pointed out that teacher absenteeism was one of the reasons for high failure rates in Primary Leaving Examinations (Africa News Service). Also students who have taken the exams 5.5% failed out of 172,241. In another exam 7,300 failed out 200,525. In 2007 the failure rate went down to 4.8%. Which is an improvement for them but still is very poor.
Secondly the wars and the parents have been affecting their education system too. According to the article “Who is to Blame for the High Failure Rates” Amuria’s district education officer Kellen Achom says “ The wars have greatly affected the region, She says most of the students in the eastern and northern regions declined in performance, at the time they were in primary.” Also Paul Abul the Moroto district education officer says: “Few children and the parents are interested in education. Parents believe if their daughters attain formal education they will become less competent wives, prostitutes or run away to marry non-Karimojong men.” Education isn’t just the government’s fault some blame goes to the parents.
In the end Uganda’s education system has a long way to go, even though there is improvement according to statistics. Uganda needs to get a better education plan to help Uganda economically and socially. This matters because if they want change in their society the children need to learn so they don’t stay in poverty.
Annotated Bibliography
“Crack a Whip on Absentee Teachers” Africa News Service (March 3 2009). Gobal issues in context. Gale.
This editorial helped me back up my thesis and talked about absentee teachers.
"Who is to blame for high Failure rates?" Africa News Service(4 Feb. 2009). Gobal issues in context. Gale. <http://findgalegroup.com/gic/start.do?prodId=GIC>.
This site helped me find everything about the parents and the exams.
MIni paper 2
Imagine going to a school were the teachers don’t show up and the majority of the grade fails. This is what the children of Uganda deal with every day. Uganda’s education system is bad. They have high failure rates and the parents of the children don’t want them getting an education.
Uganda has high failure rates. The reason they have high failure rates is because they have a lack of adequate facilities, laboratories, and teachers. High teacher absenteeism is common in Uganda. A quarter of the teachers in sampled schools countrywide were found to be absent during surprise visits. The Uganda National Examinations board recently pointed out that teacher absenteeism was one of the reasons for high failure rates in Primary Leaving Examinations (Africa News Service). Also students who have taken the exams 5.5% failed out of 172,241. In another exam 7,300 failed out 200,525. In 2007 the failure rate went down to 4.8%. Which is an improvement for them but still is very poor.
Secondly the wars and the parents have been affecting their education system too. According to the article “Who is to Blame for the High Failure Rates” Amuria’s district education officer Kellen Achom says “ The wars have greatly affected the region, She says most of the students in the eastern and northern regions declined in performance, at the time they were in primary.” Also Paul Abul the Moroto district education officer says: “Few children and the parents are interested in education. Parents believe if their daughters attain formal education they will become less competent wives, prostitutes or run away to marry non-Karimojong men.” Education isn’t just the government’s fault some blame goes to the parents.
In the end Uganda’s education system has a long way to go, even though there is improvement according to statistics. Uganda needs to get a better education plan to help Uganda economically and socially. This matters because if they want change in their society the children need to learn so they don’t stay in poverty.
Annotated Bibliography
“Crack a Whip on Absentee Teachers” Africa News Service (March 3 2009). Gobal issues in context. Gale.
This editorial helped me back up my thesis and talked about absentee teachers.
"Who is to blame for high Failure rates?" Africa News Service(4 Feb. 2009). Gobal issues in context. Gale. <http://findgalegroup.com/gic/start.do?prodId=GIC>.
This site helped me find everything about the parents and the exams.
