By. Our reporter.
The education practice manager for East Africa at World Bank, Safaa El Kogali is asking the government of Uganda to interest itself in early childhood development and not leave it to private players.
Speaking at
the Uganda teachers and school effectiveness project disseminassion workshop in
Kampala today, Safaa stated that,
pre-primary education calls for heavy investment as this ensure good trajectory
in the future after pre-primary.
“ Every
dollar that you invest in pre-primary education counts and always makes a very
big difference” Says Safaa.
Saffa also highlights the need to invest a
lot in qualifying teachers and focusing on school leadership aspects.
However, the
state minister in charge of primary education, Hon. Rosemary Sseninde reveals that govt will soon launch a policy
which will guide early childhood development, adding that this will then cater
for all sections of learners in the country.
The world
bank reveals that failure by Africa governments to invest in pre-primary
education has led to high learning poverty among African school going children
with statistics indicating 87% of 10 year old children unable to read and write
and for Uganda, 86% of these children can not read and write which has affected
their learning cycle.
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