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THE UNEB-P7- PLE/2006 RESULTS ARE SOON OUT AND ITS U.S.E..a chance for girls edu |
estralla
18-09-2007 04:58
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The UPE progam has helped a lot of the peasants in their struggle to educate their children to attain te basic skills of primary school education. The parents who could afford to pay for their children have been sending them to private primary schools with the hope that they can get good results at the end of the Primary Leaving Examinations. In the past it has been that some parents in the villages would then give fees to educate the boys and leave out the girls, in the struggle to give secondary education to their children. I think this will have to change since now there is the chance for the peasant to take their daughters to the Universal Secondary Education program.. BUT WILL THEY DO SO? I think this at last is the chance to advance the education of the girl child in rural Uganda where that chance has not been very visible. It has come to my notice that most pupils who are in primary schools are girl , there seems to be more girls than boys at least in some schools. All the more to support the GIRLS EDUCATION MOVEMENT that has been set up by the UNGEI.. United Nations Girls Education Initiative.How can the local community be sensitized to positively respond to this innitiative in line with Ugandas USE Universal Secondary Education for Bonna Basome Siniya?
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Re: THE UNEB-P7- PLE/2006 RESULTS ARE SOON OUT AND ITS U.S.E..a chance for girls edu |
danica
18-09-2007 04:59
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Thanks to UNEB for releasing the UCE/S4/UNEB/2006 results. I love education and a tiica by profession, am reaaly happy tyo see that there is an improvement in the S4 Exam perfomance. Yes the challenge still is that a lot of schools must put in more in the study or the teacing of sciences at O level. But unfortunately many third world and mostly rural secondary schools have really struggled to educate the students without all the science laboratory equipments that other schools have. What is amazing is that a lot of times when the students move from these upcountry schools to go to better A level schools some of them end up doing better than those who did their O level in the good schools.
Now that the Universal Secondary Education is here we hope that secondary education with emphasis on sciences will help many youth and thus have a bigger number of candidates passing and joining A level. But again there is need to encourage the students to join A level so that they do the 6 years of secondary education prior to their going to the University. Mai question as usual - I hope the girls will see value and put in more effort in doing the sciences both at O and A level. If the girls can do well then we are assureed of women scientists and women active in other science related fields.
Congratulations to all Head masters, teachers, parents and students for the good S4 results.Parents please take the children to S5. We now need a good education system that can offer good A level studies to enable the students read, pass, and go to the University.
UGpulse ---- I have note seen the results for Kibaale district put in your article of the best candidates per district.------ what happened.------ please reply --may be it was a misprint.
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Re: THE UNEB-P7- PLE/2006 RESULTS ARE SOON OUT AND ITS U.S.E..a chance for girls edu |
emerson
18-09-2007 05:00
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This is a very informative article. I am bowled over with the research and format in how it was put out for us here. Thank you and please keep us informed more.
I'm going to ask to be excused to digress in light of a comment I read up on a photo Admin had posted of school kids walking to school in a town setting. Reason being that it highlighted the headaches or obstacles some in rural parts of the country face getting to-fro school on a daily basis. The comment came from the photo section and I am attaching the photo to refresh our memories. Sometimes it boils down to poor planning in one's household in any setting irrespective of locality be it rural or town. Indeed there are some families in town whose kids also don't get fed prior to them walking out to school.
Just because one lives in rural parts shouldn't be an excuse for not planning out ones's day/week/life. What's stopping these kids carrying some mawolu or even lumonde/cassava let alone posho, and eating it at intervals along the way? I might've been in a boarding school in a very rural area of Busoga in my earlier life but believe you me - we improvised on what was around locally to compete with the day school kids! I used to even to trade chores with locals for millet/sogum meals or other food stuff that we couldn't pilch off from their compounds such as mangoes, oranges or sugarcane! I may be wrong but I sometimes feel its this kind of encouraged mental malaise that is infecting our society in so far as some in rural areas are concerned; whereupon now heading down to some villages you'd be hardpressed to find a well tendered garden but instead have to equip yourself with a car full of raw foodstuffs in addition to the old expected trade-offs such as soap or parrafin!!!!
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Re: THE UNEB-P7- PLE/2006 RESULTS ARE SOON OUT AND ITS U.S.E..a chance for girls edu |
tallan
18-09-2007 05:13
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When the UPE prgram began some ten years ago in 1997, it began sorrounded by the politicisation of the education that the NRM party in government would give free primary education to all children. Well first the government offered to sponsor four children and then later on it was decided that all children be given a chance to go to school.And then there was the problem of class accomodation as some schools didnot have the space to house the children i.e. some schools had as many as 350 in one class, and it was almost a disaster with the high enrolment in primary schools. But the peasants welcomed the idea and the program of free primary education as it helped many of the poor to send their kids to school withou paying school fees. Some got the impression that Museveni will take care of the kids as long as they are in school -- boona basome.But then some ten years down the road the UPE program has made some progress because the government eventually built some classrooms in different villages and town and helped take up several community founded schools that became goverment aided schools and thus reducing the child teacher ration per clas from the 350 number to about 65:1 or even in some cases to 55:1. The kid are passing the PLE exams ad are ready to go to USE. yes eagerly awaiting to go to secondary schools or SINIYA as the peasants call it.
But now ten years later and its today, the goverment now has offered free secondary education.That means that the graduates of UPE that began ten years ago,are coming into the secondary schools.The question again is: how ready is Uganda to house the incresing number of students that have now joined the Universal Secondary Education, In some subcounties, or Gombororas there are no secondary schools and one wonders what will happen to those kids who have finished PLE and have passed the exams. Where will they go? The rural areas are worst hit because the kids are many and the schools are few.The ministry of education tells us that over 200,000 Senior one students are enrolled under USE and they are to flood schools today Monday 19 Feb 2007. Yes the intake per school has increased but the facilities have not increased, I guess its because the nations ministry of education was busy with UPE and didnot have enough time to plan for the USE. If it is true that the ministry indicated that the 700 government aided schhols are expected to admit 126,000 students, private schools 36,000 and new seed schools 4,800 then what will happen to the rest of the kids? The ministry plans to bulid SEED schools in subcounties withou secondary schools. Well what will be the situation in the north and in the east of the country where there has been some political instability and no schools built? And what of those subcounties thatnhave never bulitanysecondary school private or community based or faith community based? Government wants that the government schools admit students who got over aggregate 28, while the private schools are free to take on those with up to 32 aggregates. But those whgo passed are many and will they all be absorbed into the USE school aand the private schools?
How reaady are schools for the USE the Universal Secondary education? Well since Uganda is on the road to modenization and privatisation, I think its high time the government gave subsidy to school that are private in order to boost the education sector of the nation. And so the step taken by the government so far is a good a step, that is , to befriend the private schools and make sure that they admit students into the secondary schhols ad thus be able to absorb the high number of UPE graduates that are going to increasingly enter the secondary schools year after year . That means it high time the government woes investors into the education sector as part of the privitazation program--- to invite the faith based communities especially churches and then business community and other local and foreing bodies or NGOs to invest in education, and especially in secondary education.
As usual, I find myself again putting the same question: will the peasant community this time see the light at the end of the tunnel and think seriously of sending their daughters to secondary schools? or wil it be the same saying that girls and women are not to go to schools. You see in the past it has been that the parents would pay fees for the boys and not for the girls as the girls would be kept home for marriage and for good money of dowry, but that is now changing, and education will fast track that change in society so that the parents see value in educating the girl child as well .I think its high time the population be sensitized on the values of girl child education. Yes we must support the education of the girl child so as to have the nation go into modernization.The girls must go to the USE and then A level and later on other tertiary instituions and University, then they wiil be able to come out of the training and enter the world of politicians, doctors, nurses, engineers, teachers, professors, the military and business community etc. at local, district,regional, national and international level.
Yes free secondary education has began today in Uganda, but the question still remains: how ready are the schools , the parents , the Local Councils . and the politicians ready for the Universal Secondary Education. Feel free to respond to my rather lengthy observation of education events in the field of secondary education USE in Uganda.
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