About 1000 needy students will benefit from the government bursaries as one of the activities under the Post Primary Education and Expansion and Improvement project.

many disadvantaged Ugandans unable to afford education

This comes after the Ministry of Education and Sports received a loan of about 168 billion shillings for the implementation of the fourth phase of this project from the African Development Fund.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Francis Lubanga has told journalists that one of the key aspects that this project will address is the challenge of gender and regional disparities in the access of education in Uganda.

Lubanga says therefore the bursaries under this project will be given out in consideration of this key challenge that the project seeks to address.

He says that is the reason why the ministry has made a memorandum of understanding with the Forum for African Women Educationists and hope that this forum which will do the delegated management of the bursaries will consider those challenges while giving out the bursaries.

The project will take four years.

By Tiberindwa Zacharia, Ultimate Media

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Many grils still dropping out of school

Though under the Universal primary Education programme enrollment figures of girls in primary school have risen in the recent past in Uganda to 49% which is about 3 million girls enrolled in primary school, FAWE says only 65% of those girls manage to complete their primary education successfully.

FAWE has revealed in a press statement that the government ought to come with measures to ensure that the girls are retained in school when they are enrolled as this will be better than just enrolling and then a big number of the enrolled girls dropping out.

The forum says it is glad the government has come up programmes like the Girls’ Education movement and the National Strategy for Girl Education which is all aimed at ensuring that more girls are retained in school when they are enrolled in primary school.

FAWE says government should come up with more of such measures to improve on the retention of more girls in school when they are enrolled.

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