Educational statistics
If like me, statistics conjures up images of a long-troubled relationship, welcome to this blog. It is written with you in mind. If like me, you begrudgingly, one eye closed, interrogate numbers to make sense of your world, worry not, "I have got you", and even have an emoji to match this sentiment! However, if you were the mathematics genius, skipping all the way to math lesson 001, and you are drawn towards the allure of mathematics in everyday life, seeing the world as Fibonacci, then I have something interesting in store, for you too.
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A Tale of Four Students in a Pandemic
In general, all students in Uganda are ‘learning out of school’ and have varying degrees of access to learning with vastly different home circumstances. The pandemic has introduced a new vocabulary of common phrases into the world of education. We hear of ‘building back better’, ‘learning gaps’, ‘routine assessment based exams’, ‘impact of Covid 19 on attainment' and 'pandemic pregnancies' among many others. Beyond their latent meanings, all the above phrases carve out their position in the 2020 education lexicon.
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There is need to invest more in education
The World Bank’s analysis of cross-country data on human capital indicates that Uganda is underinvesting in the future productivity of its citizens. Though Uganda’s population is growing everyday, the investment in education remains low. At 2.6 percent of GDP, Uganda’s current budget expenditure on education is the lowest in the region compared to Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi which spend between 3.2% and 5.2%. This is placing Uganda’s future in Jeopardy.
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How It All Started
I couldn’t stop thinking about John and his future without an education. But also what an education would mean for a child like John, already so articulate, his mind functioning beyond his age and life.
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We need to talk – how school debate clubs are driving pupil performance
Meet some of Tusome Africa’s outstanding orators:
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A year on – it’s just the beginning
A year on – it’s just the beginning
A lot has happened in the past year at Tusome Africa, more than I could have imagined. We’ve grown in size, both in terms of staff and volunteers, and also in terms of the schools that we work with.
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