First Lady Receives Education Policy Review Report for Uganda’s Future

The First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Mrs Janet Museveni, has received the Education Policy Review Report, which presents findings and recommendations for a new Government White Paper on education and sports services in Uganda.

Mrs. Museveni received the report from the Commission team, led by Chairperson Hon. Col. (Rtd.) Nuwe Amanya Mushega, during a special Ministry of Education and Sports Top Management meeting at State House.

The report, themed Education for Values, Innovation, and Transformation, represents three and a half years of work by the Education Policy Review Commission, established under Legal Notice No. 5 of 2021 and launched by Mrs Museveni in May 2021.

She noted that the report’s recommendations will provide the government with various policy options to drive national transformation through the education and sports sector.

Mrs Museveni expressed gratitude to the public participants and the benchmark countries—Ethiopia, Finland, Kenya, Rwanda, South Korea, Tanzania, and Vietnam—for their cooperation. She also thanked the government and people of Finland, along with Finn Church Aid, for supporting the Commission.

Hon. Amanya Mushega reported that the Commission identified several educational challenges and proposed 284 recommendations in the final EPRC Report. He noted that while access to education had improved significantly, quality remained a challenge. The Commission’s overall policy direction seeks to consolidate educational access while enhancing quality.

The submitted report includes several attachments, such as stakeholders’ memoranda, public hearing findings, nationwide consultation results, benchmarking studies, an analysis of educational performance against the 1992 White Paper, and a comprehensive review of Uganda’s education, training, and sports system.