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Title: | Movement of School-Children and Provision of Secondary Schools in Uganda |
Author: | Gould, W.T.S. |
Year: | 1974 |
Periodical: | East African Geographical Review |
Issue: | 12 |
Period: | April |
Pages: | 65-76 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | pupils secondary education educational policy Education and Oral Traditions |
Abstract: | Expansion of secondary education in Uganda since independence in 1962 has affected both the volume and direction of flows of students from home to school. Government policy since 1966 of concentrating expansion in the larger urban schools has strengthened the role of towns in general and the capital in particular. A growing number of secondary students leave home to live in towns, often in very difficult conditions. Government policy in school expansion has accelerated the rate of urban growth. So long as the distribution of opportunities for people with 'O'-levels and above remains in urban areas, the location of a secondary school will have relatively little direct impact on the subsequent migration history of its students. Ref., notes, tables, map. |