ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the case of expansion of secondary education in Uganda since Independence. It illustrates how administrative and financial constraints have affected adversely policies designed to reduce imbalances in provision of schools and how the rural/urban imbalance has altered to the extent that an increasing proportion of secondary school places for African students is found in urban areas. Government policy in school expansion in Uganda has accelerated the rate of urban growth. So long as the distribution of opportunities for people with 'O' levels and above remains in urban areas, the location of a secondary school will have relatively little direct impact on the subsequent migration history of its students. There is a tendency for some pupils in newer, very poorly endowed boarding schools to want to transfer to another school, even a large urban day-school, to take advantage of the better facilities and supposed better chance of success in examinations.
