Editing Uganda (section)

===Education===
{{Main|Education in Uganda}}
[[File:Makerere University Campus Entrance Road.JPG|thumb|Makerere university Campus Entrance]]
Uganda's educational system, while lacking in many areas, has seen significant change since the late 1990s. The educational system is set up so that children spend seven years in primary school, six years in secondary school, and three to five years in post secondary school. In 1997, the government declared that primary school would be free for all children.<ref>{{Cite web|title=universal primary education in Uganda.|url=https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/4072.pdf|website=odi.org|access-date=17 November 2020|archive-date=5 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305100337/https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/4072.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> This amendment has had huge benefits. In 1986, only two million children were attending primary school. By 1999, six million children were attending primary school, and this number has continued to climb.

Following significant gains in access to primary education since 1997 when universal primary education (UPE) was introduced, Uganda in 2007 became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to introduce universal secondary education (USE).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://epg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Uganda-PPP-Review_2018_Final.pdf|title=Uganda universal secondary education|access-date=16 November 2020|archive-date=6 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206232723/https://epg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Uganda-PPP-Review_2018_Final.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> This led to an increase in lower secondary enrolment of nearly 25% between 2007 and 2012.[[File:Uganda students.jpg|thumb|Students in Uganda]]

At the 2002 census, Uganda had a [[literacy]] rate of 66.8 percent (76.8 percent male and 57.7 percent female).<ref name=cia/> Public spending on education was at 5.2 percent of the 2002–2005 GDP.<ref name="hdrstats.undp.org"/>

{{As of|2020}}, the [[Uganda National Council for Higher Education|NCHE]] website listed 46 private accredited universities,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Home|url=https://unche.or.ug/|access-date=20 November 2020|website=unche.or.ug|archive-date=6 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106225116/https://unche.or.ug/|url-status=live}}</ref> including [[Makerere University]], [[Mbarara University|Mbarara University of science and technology]], [[Kyambogo University]], [[Gulu University]], [[Uganda Christian University]], [[Kampala International University|Kampala international University]].