In the early 1990s, the government liberalised the education sector which led to an increase in the number of privately-owned schools. Despite the introduction of Universal Primary Education (UPE) in 1997 and Universal Secondary Education (USE) in 2007, parents are still parting with huge sums of money to educate their children in private schools.
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