Accessibility to higher education remains a big challenge particularly for students from rural Uganda. - Mary Okwakol

Education is the key to empowerment and development. As educators, our role is not just to transmit knowledge, but to build confidence, critical thinking skills, and a sense of responsibility in our students.

As was the case in the 2020 examination, female candidates have proportionally (in terms of percentages) performed better than the males at all levels, and have shown a lower failure rate. Even at individual subject levels, they have shown a better performance.

There are only 40 women vice-chancellors heading up the roughly 1,500 universities across Africa.