{"id":33765,"date":"2018-03-23T13:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T13:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=33765"},"modified":"2018-03-23T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T13:38:21","slug":"girls-enroll-more-in-primary-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/girls-enroll-more-in-primary-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls enroll more in primary education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>BY TOM BRIAN ANGURINI.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new report released by the Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group shows that in the financial year 2016\/2017 more girls enrolled for primary education compared to boys.<\/p>\n<p>It further indicates that out of 570primary schools monitored, over 410,000 pupils enrolled.<\/p>\n<p>Of these, 209,000, accounting for over 50% were female compared to 204,000male pupils accounting for 49%.<\/p>\n<p>While the teacher to pupil ratio was unevenly distributed across quarters at 1.240, 1:47 and 1:57 for quarters 2, 3 and 4 meaning that teachers are not in position to provide the required attention to pupils when needed.<\/p>\n<p>While releasing the report, Sophie Nampewo, a policy analyst at CSBAG attributed the increase of girl child enrollment to increased awareness, improvement in sanitation and will of parents to take their children to school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY TOM BRIAN ANGURINI. A new report released by the Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group shows that in the financial year 2016\/2017 more girls enrolled for primary education compared to boys. It further indicates that out of 570primary schools monitored, over 410,000 pupils enrolled. Of these, 209,000, accounting for over 50% were female compared to 204,000male pupils accounting for 49%. While the teacher to pupil ratio was unevenly distributed across quarters at 1.240, 1:47 and 1:57 for quarters 2, 3 and 4 meaning that teachers are not in position to provide the required attention to pupils when needed. While releasing the report, Sophie Nampewo, a policy analyst at CSBAG attributed the increase of girl child enrollment to increased awareness, improvement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":33773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}