200811092266 | Uganda Govt to avail loans to students for tuition fees

Uganda Govt to avail loans to students for tuition fees

The Uganda Government has agreed to provide loans to students who cannot afford to pay tuition fees for university Education. This scheme will start from next year. State minister for higher Education Gabriel Opio has announced. Under the scheme, the Government will pay fees for poor students, who will pay back when they start working.

The Ministry of Education and Sports has been asked by the Cabinet to prepare an implementation proposal as well as set the unit cost of various programmes at the universityies“This is a way of increasing access to higher education which has been a challenge. The Government will increase university intake in form of providing loans to students,” he told Saturday Vision shortly after opening the Education Sector Review Conference at Hotel Africa. This year’s theme is striving to deliver quality education and sports to children in Uganda.

“We are already working on the proposal and we shall table it to Cabinet as soon as possible,” Opio said. "Students who excel should be rewarded. That is the practice across the world and it promotes healthy competition,” Opio noted. Currently, here are 109,794 university students registed in Uganda.