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Allan Muganga; Oluwasegun Adesola Oladipo; Michael Agyemang Adarkwah – Discover Education, 2024
Globally, the trend toward privatizing higher education has been accelerating, driven by economic and policy shifts. Uganda has aligned with this movement, becoming one of the African countries implementing privatization to enhance accessibility and efficiency in its universities. However, the benefits and challenges of higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Higher Education, Private Colleges
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Mayengo, Nathaniel; Namusoke, Jane; Dennis, Barbara – Ethnography and Education, 2015
With international momentum to achieve "Education for All" by 2015, global attention is being paid to those parts of the world where mass formal primary schooling is relatively new. Uganda is such a place. In the context of ethnographic fieldwork at a poor, undocumented, private primary school in rural Uganda, parents were interviewed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Ethnography, Neoliberalism
Sekiwu, Denis – Online Submission, 2010
The thrust for globalisation of society has taken centre stage. This means that people around the world are required to develop high level but low cost technologies and innovative competencies in order to enhance social development. In the field of higher education, university managers need to join the technological revolution by adopting low cost…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Competition, Global Approach
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Parkinson, Sarah – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2009
The purpose of this article is to analyze the demand-driven extension approach based on empirical evidence of a case study of the National Agricultural Advisory Service in Uganda. This research found several problems rooted in differences between the assumptions of demand-driven extension and the perspectives of farmers. Many farmers did not place…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Educational Demand, Privatization, Ownership