Looking ahead

Our first task is to set up and run the new schools with PEAS. This will enable us to gain first-hand experience of how to manage secondary schools effectively in Uganda, and build our credibility with the government and local communities.

Under the planned roll-out, two schools will open in 2012, four in 2013 and four in 2014. We believe the schools will demonstrate how the public-private partnership education model can be part of a long-term solution to deliver secondary education.

Taking the programme to scale

We will be advocating for the integration of successful elements of our partnership model into mainstream government education policy, with the hope that our programme establishes a diversified model of delivery.

Initial discussions have also taken place with the Ministry of Education which may lead to us also running newly-built government schools. This option would significantly reduce the amount of money we would need to invest in building schools, and would allow us to support thousands more young Ugandans to access a high quality secondary education. 

We appreciate the vast scale of the education challenge in Africa and know how much we still have to learn. But further ahead, we believe that our partnership model for Uganda can play a role in broadening secondary education across Sub-Saharan Africa.