AfroPhysics/Background

=Insufficiencies in Ugandan schools=


 * Lack of suitable physics text book materials suited to the African context.
 * Lack of student activity packs for given topics.
 * Limited physics teacher collaboration.
 * Failure by physics teachers to relate class work to reality.
 * Limited effort by teachers to involve students in a way that fosters creativity and innovative scientific thinking other than mere recall.
 * Lack of laboratory resources.
 * Lack of physics teachers
 * Low motivation among the teachers so they show little commitment
 * Lack of practice skills in some areas so the teachers shy from them
 * Lack of creativity among science teachers
 * Many teachers at times teach concepts they themselves did not understand, but were merely crammed and reproduced in examinations.
 * There is a general desire to finish the syllabus other than mastery of the content.