Educational marginalization is the major factor for the social, cultural, economic, and political marginalization of any community in any country. Literacy and educational levels of Muslims in Uganda are far below that of their Christian counterparts. Muslims in Africa have been marginalized in formal education since the colonial days. Anecdotal evidence suggests a nearly ubiquitous gap in Muslim educational attainment across Uganda. While the magnitude of inequality in Muslim educational attainment in Uganda has been changing over time, limited scholarly attention has been given to this issue. Against this backdrop, this position paper analyses the historical and current perspective of educational marginalization of Muslims in Uganda, its legal implications & measures to mitigate this marginalization, and challenges to mitigating the marginalization. The paper advocates for the need to take affirmative action in favour of Muslims to address past and present educational injustices.

Faced with an increasingly escalating problem of private school financing, the study examined the contribution of existing cost-related entrepreneurial management practices on the financing of private schools in Rubaga Division (Kampala). More specifically, the study considered the contribution of user charges and payment in-kind on school financing. It employed a cross-sectional survey design involving 150 teachers from 15 schools. Results revealed that there is a statistically significant but weak relationship between the two cost-related practices and financing of private schools. The study concluded that prevalent cost-related practices are neither adequate nor equally effective in ensuring a steady flow of financial resources for schools, hence need for both more enterprising alternatives and due diligence. Other recommendations for better financial resource mobilisation and management were made.

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