Education Policy Implementation and Performance of Schools in Bududa District, Eastern Uganda

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study to explore the role of education policy implementation and performance of schools in Bududa district, eastern Uganda. The study set to examine the role education policy on performance of schools in Bududa district Eastern Uganda. To examine the challenges faced in policy the educational policy implementation in the schools and finally to establish the strategies for improving the performance of schools through policy implementation. The study was conducted based on a descriptive design based on 40 respondents for the data collected from the respondents in Bududa district using the questionnaires. The study conclude that there is need for adequate mechanisms that are intended to provide avenues for enhancing the policy for decision making, the education policy had some contribution to performance though the performance was low. The second objective reveal that the means of the provisions undertaken determine that the challenges for implementing education policy were funding and administrative hence the need for development of a mixed scale ofthe assessment and finally on the third objective, the strategy for education implementation were prevailing but poor and low hence the need for an actual focused environment on the values and stakes of the community involvement and enhancing funding and supervisions to generate the proper policy implementations. The study recommend that the education policy need to be strengthened in terms of content and implementation through adjustments of policy, training the managerial staff on implementation of the policy and providing the assessments for managers regarding the avenues of management for the schools, the schools systems need to be developed further in order to generate cooperation for the managerial efficiency and performance. There is need for enhancement in the implementation of the resources as mechanisms to generate the performance and functioning of the government entities and support of the management to get avenues to improved management of the resources, allocation of duties and responsibilities in proper form to attain improved performance for the employees. The study based on the findings recommend that education staff prepare for their future staff needs through strategic human resource planning, educational organizations must also assure their teachers and other employees that there will be opportunities for them to develop. There is need for establishment of proper education policy that emphasizes equal opportunity for both boys and girls.