Need For More Government Funding To Special Needs Education (SNE)

19 December 2022, 7:28 pm

By Masiira Mike Tiger FM

The chairperson of Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) Hajjat Safia Nalule Jjuuko has asked government to allocate more funds towards Special Needs Education so as to ease their quality education too to facilitate equity via education. Speaking to the media at the Uganda Media Center Kampala, Ms. Nalule  expressed the need by government to allocate more monies to the Special Needs Education since their education is too expensive to parents as compared to other children due to expensive facilitates like learning aids, special teachers among others that aren’t widely present in all schools in the country.

She further called upon government to consider building of more Special Needs Schools at all levels across the country to ease their education since currently majority of the schools are privately owned which limits many of the poor learners to miss out on education with all its associated effects like dependency in future, feeling discriminated, just to mention.

Relatedly, Mr. Sseruwagi Habibu member of the commission called upon government via the ministry of Education to urgently regulate the ever escalating school dues that have limited children of the poor from attending basic education with all its demerits to the future of the country thus urgent need by government to regulate school fees. He further explained that the regulation must be cutting across to both private and government schools because the hiking fees problem affects all.