The Ugandan government provides free primary education for all children, but parents whose children are enrolled in pre-primary school must pay often prohibitively high fees. The pre-primary years are ...

On a roadside in Central Uganda, a woman selling charcoal says she barely earns enough to buy food for herself and her eight children. She is determined for her children to go to school and says she ...

Are we orienting our students towards accepting different standards of living that an unequal society imposes on them? Does pre-primary schooling teach children from rural and deprived classes to set ...

Three recent independent reports have made a compelling case for Uganda to invest in pre-primary education. In June 2024, the Initiative for Economic and Social Rights (ISER) and Human Rights Watch ...

Uganda occupies a leading role in granting access to primary and secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1997, Uganda commenced the implementation of the Universal Primary Education (UPE) ...

Pre-primary classrooms should be non-competitive and children should be allowed to learn in a stress-free environment, a member of the national core committee of an association of pre-schools told ...

Researchers from the Higher School of Economics and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s WORLD Policy Analysis Center have found that 45% of countries, with only 15% of low-income countries, ...

Each and every child deserves a good start in life. Unfortunately though, all children don?t start with the same advantages, but early childhood care and education is a way to try to get things even.