Few students enroll in USE schools
May 01, 2008
Some schools under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) programme admitted only three students,
Some schools under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) programme admitted only three students, writes Josephine Maseruka.
Sanyo Senior Secondary School in Kanungu district had only three students when the head-count was conduced by the Ministry of Education on March 19. The school is privately-owned.
Schools with less than 50 students were termed to be ‘critically under-sub-scribed.’ The report showed that many Government secondary schools enrolled less than 20 students.
The assistant commissioner for statistics, Albert Byamugisha, said the ministry was investigating the critically under-subscribed schools and the over-subscribed schools.
Out of the 1,235 government and private schools under the USE programme, 111 schools had more than 250 students in Senior One. Nkoma SSS in Mbale had the highest number of 790 students.
By the time of the headcount, the Government had not paid over sh1b for Senior One and Two students and for those under the Business Training, Vocational Education and Training.
Sanyo Senior Secondary School in Kanungu district had only three students when the head-count was conduced by the Ministry of Education on March 19. The school is privately-owned.
Schools with less than 50 students were termed to be ‘critically under-sub-scribed.’ The report showed that many Government secondary schools enrolled less than 20 students.
The assistant commissioner for statistics, Albert Byamugisha, said the ministry was investigating the critically under-subscribed schools and the over-subscribed schools.
Out of the 1,235 government and private schools under the USE programme, 111 schools had more than 250 students in Senior One. Nkoma SSS in Mbale had the highest number of 790 students.
By the time of the headcount, the Government had not paid over sh1b for Senior One and Two students and for those under the Business Training, Vocational Education and Training.