THE CHALLENGES OF FREE SECONDARY EDUCATION (UNIVERSAL SECONDARY EDUCATION) IN BUYENDA DISTRICT UGANDA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION

APPROVAL

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ii

LIST OF ACRONYMS

DEFIN~ON OF TERMS

LIST OF TABLES ix

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER ONE 1

INTRODUCTION 1

1.0 Background

1.2 Statement of the problem 2

1.3 Objectives of the study 3

1.3.1 General objective 3

1.3.2 Specific objectives 3

1.3.3 Research questions 3

1.4 Scope of the study 3

1.5 Significance of the study 4

CHAPTER TWO

LiTERATURE REVIEW 5

2.0 Introduction 5

2.1 The political factors affecting the affecting USE scheme in Buyende district 5

2.2 The economic factors affecting the free secondary education (USE) in Buyende district.... 6

2.3 The social and cultural factors the free secondary education (USE) 7

CHAPTER THREE 9

METHODOLOGY 9

3.0 Introduction

3.lAreaofstudy 9

3.2 Sample procedure 9

3.3 Methods of Data collection .9

3.3.1 Questionnaires 9

3.3.2 Observation 10

3.3.3 Interview 10

3.4 Sources of data io

3.4.1 Primary sources 10

3.4.2 Secondary sources 10

3.5 Data collection procedure 10

3.6 Data analysis 10

3.7 Limitation of the study 11

CHAPTER FOUR 12

DATA ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION 12

4.0 Introduction 12

4.1 Social demographic characteristics 12

4.1.1 Marital status 12

4.1.2 Age 12

4.1.3 Sex 13

4.1.4 Education levels 14

4.2 Challenges of universal secondary education in Kidera, Buyende district 14

4.2.1 The political factors affecting the USE scheme 14

4.2.2 The economic factors affecting USE programme in Buyende district 15

4.2.3 The social and cultural factors that influenced to low uplifting of USE in Buyende district is

CHAPTER FIVE 17

SUMMARY OF THE MAJOR FINDINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS 17

5.0 Introduction 17

5.1 Summary of the study 17

5.3 Conclusions 17

5.3 Recommendations

REFERENCES .20

APPENDICES 21

APPENDIX 1 21

QUESTIONNAIRE 21

ABSTRACT 

The major objective of this study was to find out the challenges facing universal Secondary Education in some of the schools in Buyende district. The study was conducted in sub counties like Nkodo, Kidera, Kakoge, Kagulu, Bugaya, students, community members, teachers and political leaders were involved in the study. A total of 60 (sixty) participants, 15 parents, 10 political leaders, 20 teachers and 15 community members were involved in the study. It involved both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The challenges of USE in Buyende district involved those that are political, economic, social and cultural for instance the political challenges involved poor policies, poor salaries and others while as poverty, misuse of funds were some of the economic challenges and lastly the social and cultural challenges involved absence of cultural support, teacher strikes, early marriages and others. However, conclusions and recommendations were then made after presenting and interpreting data.