Enhancing Female Enrollment in Advanced Secondary Education in Selected Secondary Schools in Kampala District, Uganda

Education Sector is witnessing new developments at the international and national levels. Internationally, Heads of States under the United Nations in 2015 adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustainable Development Goal 4 provides for inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all and has defined new targets and indicators that have to be achieved by 2030. This research study aimed at investigating the Strategies to Increase Female Enrolment in Advanced Level in selected Secondary Schools in Kampala District. The main objective of the study was to establish the enrollment of females for Advanced level in secondary schools. Cross-sectional research design was adopted for the study. Schools were randomly drawn from Kampala district in Uganda. The study was quantitative and was guided by the descriptive and cross sectional survey designs. This sample size involved 300 form five and six secondary students. These students were selected using simple random sampling technique. A questionnaire was used in collecting data for the study. This data was analyzed using frequencies and percentages. The findings of the study revealed that socio-economic barriers, cultural norms and expectations, lack of awareness about educational opportunities and gender stereotyping had significant relationship with the female enrollment in advanced level in selected secondary schools. Therefore, female student’s attitude should be changed towards studies at A’ level, awareness be made, addressing cultural barriers where girls are seen for marriages, hope be developed in girls that educated girls can make good wife’s not so that they are patient and the assumption that A ‘level is difficult tends to discourage girls should stop because girls should know that they are having the same brain like boys, they are not any less. The difference between boys and girls is not in the brain that handles academic gymnastics. They should therefore stop self-pity and be hustlers in the field of academics like anyone else. Female enrolment would improve at an advanced level if the above challenges, wrong beliefs can be addressed.