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Uganda education system follows 7-4-2-2,don’t be confused by these figure we will show you right now how it works.

In simple terms Uganda education starts with seven years of primary education, 4 years of lower secondary, 2 years of upper secondary and 2-5 years of tertiary education.

The public higher education sector is composed of universities, national teachers colleges, colleges of commerce, technical colleges, training institutions, and other tertiary institutions. On this page you will learn about the history of Education in Uganda, how it started and where it is now

The history of Education in Uganda

It is known that education in Uganda was started by missionaries who were led by Anglican missionaries and French catholic missionaries.

Mission schools were established in Uganda in the 1890s, and in 1924 the government established the first secondary school for Africans. By 1950, however, the government operated only three of the fifty-three secondary schools for Africans.

Three others were privately funded, and forty-seven were operated by religious organizations. Education was eagerly sought by rural farmers as well as urban elites, and after independence many villages, especially in the south, built schools, hired teachers, and appealed for and received government assistance to operate their own village schools

Most subjects were taught according to the British syllabus until 1974, and British examinations measured a student's progress through primary and secondary school. In 1975 the government implemented a local curriculum, and for a short time most school materials were published in Uganda.

School enrollments continued to climb throughout most of the 1970s and 1980s, but as the economy deteriorated and violence increased at the time of Amin and his military rule, local publishing almost ceased, and examination results deteriorated.

In short Ugandan education lost value and by 1990 adult literacy nationwide was estimated at 50 percent. By the time national resistance movement came to power Uganda’s image on education was behind schedule.

Read about Primary School Education in Uganda

Read more on Uganda Secondary School education system

Post Secondary Education in Uganda

Improving this ratio was important to the Museveni government. In order to reestablish the national priority on education, the Museveni government adopted a two-phase policy to rehabilitate buildings and establish minimal conditions for instruction, and to improve efficiency and quality of education through teacher training and curriculum upgrading.

Important long-term goals included establishing universal primary education, free secondary education and shifting the emphasis in post secondary education from purely academic to more technical and vocational training.

As we write these now, Uganda education is good and many foreign students are flowing in for better and conducive climate for their studies.

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