Study on the Ugandan education issues
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I found an informative document on IRRODL which has a lot of facts about the Ugandan problems. I thought it would be good to share this here.
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/833/1541
They went in for the Universal Primary education in 1997 (something India has started implementing this year) and quickly ran up a shortage of secondary education infrastructure. They introduced Universal Secondary education and now have a tertiary education infrastructure problem. Not only that they are characterized by many problems such as large rural base, access, electricity, internet availability, transportation, high cost of education etc. Also suffer from (apparently) high dropout rates, poor teacher pay, attitudes and mismatch with the job markets.
There is some resemblance with conditions in Mexico and India, although context, scale and other regional characteristics are completely different.
All three regions are "sources of students" seeking quality education and destinations for private players.
