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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Members of Parliament\u2019s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have raised concerns over the deteriorating quality of education in the county.<\/p>\n

The lawmakers, who were meeting officials from the Education sector to respond to issues raised in the Auditor General\u2019s report yesterday, said some graduates cannot express themselves during job interviews.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see there is poor standardisation of education. You find that someone has got a first-class degree in law and cannot even write any simple policy document,\u201d Mr Eddie Kwizera Wagahungu (Bukimbiri County) said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you have a plan of standardising education so that people are not ashamed when they go out or do interviews and cannot even introduce themselves,\u201d Mr Kwizera added.<\/p>\n

The committee chairperson, Mr Medard Sseggona (Busiro County East) asked, \u201cWhat has happened to the quality of education in this country to the extent of schools now indulging in a practice of appealing for support from OBs (Old Boys) and OGs (Old Girls)?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you share with us a written policy on UPE (Universal Primary Education) and USE (Universal Secondary Education)? If you cannot pay for our children, don\u2019t pretend because we do not only want quantity but quality [of education]. Ugandans pay for quality,\u201d Mr Sseggona said.<\/p>\n

In response, the Permanent Secretary of the Education Ministry, Ms Ketty Lamaro, blamed the issue on inadequate funding, which she said is affecting their ability to offer quality education to students.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it is to do with quality, we require money, and adequate resources to provide quality,\u201d Ms Lamaro said, adding, \u201cAs we speak now, the overall budget of education in terms of percentage to the overall national budget is 8 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said of the Shs52 trillion budget for the 2023\/2024 Financial Year, the education and sports sector was accorded Shs600 billion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn other countries, it is at 20 [percent], 23 or even 25 [percent]. You can only do much with eight percent in terms of the various interventions under education. So, for most of these issues, whether grant aid per school, you will need about Shs460 million to grant aid to a school…how much is that for 100 schools? If we are saying eight percent, we cannot say much about the quality you want,\u201d Ms Lamaro said.<\/p>\n

Dr Safinah Museene, the commissioner for Health Education and Training (HET) at the Health Ministry, said the Education for Health Framework that is currently being crafted by a nine-member team will address some of the issues concerning quality of learners.<\/p>\n

\u201c….in the policy, the areas of concern [are] inadequacy of quality and quantity of health workers and that is what the policy is addressing. In the area of quality, we noted that whereas we have assessment bodies for nurses, for medical doctors, we did not have one. A provision for that has been put in the policy,\u201d Ms Museene said.<\/p>\n

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