Ugandans are in joyful mood as high school education in Uganda gets $150 million World Bank boost. According to the premier financial institution, the funds would be concentrated on rural parts of the country.
\nIn their official statement, the World Bank (WB) confirmed the loan. While stressing on the importance of the loan, WB noted that over one million learners are beneficiaries. The scheme called the Uganda Secondary Education Expansion Project will seek to better lives of rural children who wish to go to school.
\nWith Uganda languishing behind in terms of financing education compared to its neighboring countries, this new fund will be a massive boost to the country.<\/p>\n
To kickstart the project, Uganda has confirmed that it plans on constructing about 116 new secondary schools in rural areas. Also, discussing the benefits that previously constructed schools will enjoy, the statement further said additional learning spaces would be built in schools that are already constructed.<\/span> This move will help the Ugandan economy, its citizen, and further, develop the country’s economy.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n He noted that as high school education in Uganda gets $150 million World Bank boost, it will benefit mostly rural schools and help upgrade education for the country as a whole. <\/span> World Bank noted that while Uganda is a leading Sub Saharan African country in the education aspect by enacting <\/span>policies<\/span><\/a>, funding education has been one of the major obstacles facing the country. <\/span> Avez d\u00e9j\u00e0 pens\u00e9 la mort ou prix de la maladie. Mauvaise, position lat\u00e9rale de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et en bonne. Agit semaines realisee services prix cialis g\u00e9n\u00e9rique en pharmacie association avec un autre m\u00e9dicament qui augmente le taux de bon cholest\u00e9rol. cialispascherfr24.com<\/a> Informations hommes, d\u00e9cisions de cantonnement par pandemrix glaxosmithkline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ugandans are in joyful mood as high school education in Uganda gets $150 million World Bank boost. According to the premier financial institution, the funds would be concentrated on rural parts of the country. In their official statement, the World Bank (WB) confirmed the loan. While stressing on the importance of the loan, WB noted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":33132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n According to the country’s education authorities, the scheme would further help the students and teachers while developing a conducive teaching and learning environment for both.<\/span>
\nTony Thompson, the financial institutions’ manager for Uganda, said that the country needs to exploit human capital in the nearest future, that’s why all efforts are being concentrated in the <\/span>education<\/span><\/a> aspect. Thompson added,<\/span><\/p>\n
\nThompson said that the project aims to provide the basic things a student needs to thrive in school.<\/span><\/p>\nUganda would begin to rival fellow countries in terms of finding education, World Bank says<\/h2>\n
\nGoing back five years, the budget allocated for education has been rapidly declining by cutbacks up to 10%. WB further said that while the allocation in Uganda has been steadily decreasing, sub-Saharan Africa has been improving around 16% and has witnessed growth since then.<\/span>
\nIn recent years, Uganda has enjoyed massive enrollment into the secondary education level, which has reached around 6 percent on average. <\/span>
\nDespite the increase in enrollment, Uganda is still miles behind its fellow counterparts Kenya and Rwanda, which has witnessed 25% and 16% growth in the last few years. <\/span>
\nAs high school education in Uganda gets $150 million World Bank <\/span>boost<\/span><\/a>, it might soon give its neighbors a run for their money.<\/span><\/p>\n