Ministry of Education must act decisively to save Uganda
SIR� The Ministry of Education must do some serious strategic thinking and take drastic action if our generation is to pass on to the future an equitable society.
The current trend in performance at all levels reveals a dangerous divide between schools within the environs of Kampala, and the rest of rural Uganda.
If this trend is not arrested quickly, we will be creating one Uganda around Kampala and the surrounding districts quite another out there.
Tuesday�s O-level results paint a sad picture! The usual suspects are the best performing schools: Budo, Namagunga, Gayaza, Nabisunsa, St Mary�s Kisubi, Namilyango, Makerere College School, and so on.
The scores posted by the �best� students in some rural districts are lamentable! Bundibugyo 27, Kalangala and Katakwi 28, Nakapiripirit 30. In between, you have districts like Kiboga, Kamuli, Nebbi, Sembabule, Pader, Moyo and others whose star performers would most likely struggle to make it among Nama gunga�s worst!
When I sat my O- and A-level exams, many years ago, it did not really matter whether you enrolled at Sir Samuel Baker, Gulu or at Teso College Aloet.
It made no difference whether you were a candidate at Mutolere High in Kisoro or at Kabaleega in Masindi, Ombaci in Arua or St Henry�s Kitovu. Generally speaking a bright child made it to higher levels regardless of school and location.
Alas, today it is different, a bright child in a rural setting is condemned to come second best to a not-so-gifted child in Kampala! This inequality follows the students all the way up, university entry remaining the preserve of those from the A-class schools around Kampala.
H. G. K. Nyakoojo
KampalaNew Vision: Thursday, 27th January, 2005
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