January 2011

Financial reforms and governance and the crisis in research in public universities in Africa: A case of Uganda

Since the 1980s, African countries including Uganda, have been implementing financial reforms with particular emphasis on spending on priority sectors.  Higher education sector was not given priority.  In this regard, there was a shift from funding higher education to funding primary education in the 1990s, the consequence of which was a decline in public funding for university education. The effect of this...

Author(s): Muriisa Roberts Kabeba

January 2011

Investigating equity through allocation of teachers

Although inequalities in education are relatively well researched, little attention is given to the inequalities in the educational resources used in education. This is clearly a short coming in the course of providing equitable education to all. One of the educational resources frequently used in discussion is teachers. However, not many researchers had evaluated it in terms of availability in a school. In this paper,...

Author(s): Ramesh Rao