By Leonard Kamugisha Akida,
NATIONAL
The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) is worried about the increasing numbers of school dropouts in the country.
At the release of Primary Leaving Examinations last week, UNEB reported that more girls are completing primary education cycle while boys are increasingly dropping out.
UPC blamed the increasing cases of school dropout on different variations of schools fees charged by schools which they say is unfair to struggling parents and students. They called on the government to establish a policy to harmonize school fees in Uganda.
Muzeyi Faizo, the party head of media and communications says harmonization of school fees would create a level playing field and ensure that no student is denied access to education due to unaffordable fees.
In addition, the UPC emphasized that the government is obliged to ensure quality education to it’s citizen calling for a collective effort to find out causes of high school dropouts as well as providing a conducive environment environment for both learners and teachers especially in public schools to facilitate proper learning and teaching.
“What we have today is not access to quality education, it’s access to schools therefore, the government should ensure that UPE provides quality education services as opposed to just providing access to schools for our children,” Muzeyi said.
