Part I - Ministry Of Education and Sports

During the period under review, the percentage share of female students to total enrolment in higher
education increased by 0.8%age points from 43.85% in financial year 2010/11 to 56.2% in financial
year 2011/12 as indicated in Table 4.20.
Table: 4.20.Percentage enrolment of students by gender
FY Male Female
2010/11 43.9% 56.2%
2011/12 56% 43.8%
Source: EMIS 2011
(d) Challenges and constraints
(i) Inadequate resources for salary enhancement for University lecturers, leading to great attrition
rates.
(ii) Inadequate resources to raise staff levels at Public Universities to at least 50% for academic
staff.
(iii) Constant GoU recurrent vis­a­vis increasing inflation and cost of living. This affects education
delivery.
(iv) Inadequate classrooms, ICT labarotories, library and office space at Uganda Management
Institute.
4.2 QUALITY
During FY2011/12, the Education Sector continued to implement a number of policy interventions
across all sub sectors to improve the quality of education in Uganda. These included; Monitoring &
support supervision; teacher training and development; Procurement of instructional materials;
Implementation of policies, laws, guidelines, plans and strategies; Curriculum development,
implementation and review; infrastructure development, among others. Achievements and out comes
under each sub sector are presented in this chapter.
4.1.1 Pre‐primary and Primary Education
During the period under review, improving the quality of Pre­Primary and primary education
remained one of the major policy thrusts for the Sub­sector. This is clearly reflected in the policy
objectives and priorities i.e. to provide support supervision to education managers so as to ensure
provision of quality education as well as improve learning achievement in literacy and numeracy; to
assist districts to improve the completion rate in primary schools; to progressively enable children
aged 3­5 years old exercise their right to quality learning, stimulation and preparation for timely
enrolment in primary; to enable children aged 6­12 years old especially girls complete quality primary
education and achieve the required proficiency levels; to improve the Pupil to Classroom Ratio (PTR);
and to establish centers of excellence in Karamoja region. These policy objectives guided action in the
sub sector during the period under review, hence a number of interventions as indicated below;
(a) Interventions undertaken to enhance quality during FY 2011/2012
The interventions undertaken by the sub­sector during the period under review are summarised in
Box 4.5 below;
ESSAPR FY 2011/12 to inform the 19 th ESSR – OCTOBER 2012
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