. DESCRIBE THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION IN UGANDA DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD

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1. Education is the process of transmitting knowledge skills, institutions, laws, beliefs and values that a society believes are necessary for a good living.
2. There are two types of education informal / formal education. Informal education was the traditional education given by Africans to their young ones before formal education was introduced.
3. While formal education refers to organized school system passing on knowledge and skills to the learners i.e. there are trained teachers, specific places for learning and examinations are given periodically with a detailed syllabus.
4. Formal education was the work of Christian missionaries largely by church missionary society the white fathers the mill hill fathers and the white fathers from Italy they ventured the little resources and valuable time.
5. Their education required and equipped converts with 3Rs, reading, writing and Arithmetic.
6. The protectorate goal supported missionary work by educating the sons and daughters of local chiefs because they were leaders of tomorrow.
7. Between 1900 -1919 missionary work in education was a success as many schools were built and many people encouraged there children to go to school.
8. In 1902 the mill hill fathers built the first school in Uganda and named It Namilyango College targeting catholic children who were tough mathematics, English, geography, music, reading and writing
9. In 1902 Mengo Senior School was also built by the church missionary society
10. In 1905 Gayaza a boarding training school for girls was opened to train the daughters ofloca1 chief. It stressed discipline and good morals.
11 There syllabus emphasized submissiveness, hard work intended to prepare them to be good housewives in future.
12. In 1906 King's College 8udo was built for Protestants by the CMS and Kabaka government provided land for the construction.
13. In 1908 St Joseph College Kisubi was built by the white fathers for Catholics.
14. By 1910 more Christian schools had been built all over the country i.e. Masaka, Mbarara, Kamuli, Hoima, Iganga etc. they were built along denominational lines and were headed by reverends and nuns. They also emphasized the 3R's.
15. In 1920'sthecolonialgovernmentpickedinterestincontrollingeducation and started extending grants to schools.
16. In 1922 a vocational technical school was opened at Makerere by the protectorate government later expanded to include medical and agricultural programmes. It attracted students from Kenya and Tanzania.
17. Phelps stokes commission was established in 1924 to examine the state of education in South, Central and Eastern Africa.
18. The commission recommended colonial government to take an active role in funding and monitoring standards of mission schools.
19. A colonial government responded by appointing Hussey as director of education in Uganda, he expanded education and built more schools to feed Makerere College.
20. In 1926 Makerere started a Junior Secondary Teachers course to last for three years
21. In the same year 1926 teacher training colleges (T.T. C) was built at Nkozi, Kyambogo, Ndejje and produced grade IIteachers.
22. At the same time many elementary schools continued without goat aid but getting assistance from rnissionaries Africans.
23. 1927 Kings College Budo, Namilyango College and Kisubi were turned into secondary schools.
24. In 1933 the Cambridge certificate course was started at Makerere producing the first graduates in 1935.
25. Between 19354-1946 higher education in Uganda developed more than before. Sir Philip Mitchell was the governor and Makerere university Mitchell Hall named after him.
26. In 1938 Directors of education from East Africa met and recommended the up grading of Makerere College as a higher institution for the whole of East Africa and Makerere got her administrative council 111 1939 by 1949 it was affiliated to the University of London.
27. Makerere started degree programmes of the 1stgraduates were out in 1953.
28. Between 1952 -1956 Sir Andrew Cohen the governor appointed a commission headed by Debunsen for advising on educational matters.
29. Sir Andrew Cohen encouraged the opening up of new primary Schools, secondary and teacher training institutions.
30. Library facilities, education centers were built as teacher's conditions of living were improving during Cohen’s time this boosted education.
31. In conclusion therefore throughout the colonial period education was largely in the hands of Christian missionaries the government only got interested in it after 1920's.