More than 400 schools in Luweero district are not inspected every school term due to lack of funds.
The area inspector of schools, Hajji Uthman Kamoga, revealed that the district receives between Shs 8m and Shs 9m for inspection.
“We need at least Shs 28m every term to inspect 709 schools in the district. These include 227 government-aided primary schools, 360 private primary schools and 17 government secondary schools. The others include 45 private but government-aided [institutions] and 60 private secondary schools but not aided,” he said.
Kamoga explained that the meager funds meant that they were unable to reach 484 schools, as they only inspect 225, as they are only 14 inspectors in the district, yet more than 50 are needed.
Each inspector is allocated Shs 40,000 a day to supervise a given school. The school inspectorate department is charged with ensuring strict monitoring to check the quality of education on issues of performance, sanitation, teacher and learner absenteeism.
Kamoga said they [inspectors] require funds for external inspection; they have decided to strategize for better results through internal inspection, carried out by school head teachers, their deputies and directors of studies. Kamoga said they had introduced forms to be filled and signed on a daily basis by the school heads, as part of the monitoring.
Luweero district education officer Florence Bbosa Sekitooleko said the department was planning to spend Shs 100m over the next financial year, to resolve the lack of transport.