Uganda: Councillors Call for Privatisation of Universal Primary Education Schools

14 February 2017

Sembabule — Sembabule District councillors are mooting a proposal to have run down public schools under government's Universal Primary Education (UPE) scheme privatised to improve academic standards.

During a council sitting on Monday, the councillors decried the sorry state of some UPE schools in the district and proposed that such schools be put in the hands of private proprietors who can effectively manage them.

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