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Education

Education is a key in promoting sustainable development through skills development to build human resource capacity and ability into a productive labour force and raising awareness on various issues of national importance. Uganda’s education system aims at training children and adults in a range of skills from basic education to professional development. It is both formal and informal. Formal education operates a 7-4-2-3 to 5 system for primary, post secondary, Higher School Certificate and tertiary education respectively. Informal education trains beneficiaries in basic skills of education like reading, writing and numeracy. To date, the district has 109 primary schools, 9 secondary schools and 2 Tertiary institutions,3 vocational schools(Technical) and 1 PTC.

The school enrollment is shown in table 1.6. It should be emphasized that the introduction of UPE in 1997 has kept enrolment in primary school markedly high.

There are 109 Primary Schools, 9 Secondary Schools, 2 Tertiary Institutions and 1 Primary Teachers College in Oyam District.

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109 Primary Schools, 9 Secondary Schools, 2 Tertiary Institutions and 1 Primary Teachers College