Flavia Lanyero
Kampala
Kitgum District has the worst education standards, with the highest rate of school drop outs in the country, a new report has revealed.
The three-month report that was conducted by World Learning and Straight Talk Foundation in December and launched on Tuesday in Kampala, indicated that the educational infrastructure in Kitgum District is far below the government’s standards. As a result, education in the district remains wanting.
This has been attributed to the two-decade old Lord’s Resistance Army war in Northern Uganda.
According to the report, there are fewer teachers per student in the district, most of whom are inadequately trained. There is also an acute scarcity of scholastic supplies, classrooms and latrines in schools in the district.
“Those children who find themselves able to access school often find an institution of limited resources, including desperately unskilled and unprofessional teachers, the teachers are reported to arrive at school late,” reads the report. “The fate of pupils therefore remains in the hands of these improper teachers.”
The report said 40 per cent of children in Kitgum have never completed their primary school; only 24 per cent completed their primary school, while 24 per cent have never attended school and only 12 per cent completed their advanced certificate of education.
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