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Monitoring and Implementation of Universal Primary Education (UPE) in Uganda

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The Education Systems of Africa

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This chapter is culled from my PhD thesis. The purpose of this study was to conduct an empirical study on the ascribed roles of School Management Committees (SMCs) in monitoring the implementation of UPE in Uganda. SMCs are mandated to participate and monitor all the activities that make a school operational. The research questions that guided this study were twofold: (1) How do SMCs describe their roles in monitoring the implementation of UPE? (2) To what extent the SMCs influence the implementation of UPE? Secondary data is used in this study. The results of the study seem to suggest that SMCs understand their roles and execute them in some schools. However, some members seem not to understand their roles according to the study findings. Even those understanding their roles, they were not fully implementing them as a result of not understanding their mandate fully. The study finding further seem to suggest that in schools where SMCs were active in their monitoring roles, there was an improvement in UPE implementation seen in increased enrollment and support supervision that are vital for promoting teaching and learning. There is need for a policy by the government that stipulates a minimum level of education and experience as a requirement for one to be elected as a member of an SMC. This should be accompanied by a clear policy of continuous training in new skills of monitoring and managing school resources to support teaching and learning in schools.

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  1. Uganda Management Institute, Kampala, Uganda

    Robert Mugabe

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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Mugabe, R., Ogina, T.A. (2021). Monitoring and Implementation of Universal Primary Education (UPE) in Uganda. In: Adeyemo, K.S. (eds) The Education Systems of Africa. Global Education Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44217-0_9

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