The quiet revival of the Busoga sub-region schools

The schools of the Busoga sub-region are quietly having a good decade. Busoga College Mwiri, long the area's flagship, is once more attracting strong pupils who would until recently have decamped to Kampala for their O and A levels.

The revival is partly infrastructure, partly results, and partly pride: a regional pull that keeps able children closer to home rather than exporting them across the country.

District officials point to renovated science blocks and a teaching workforce that is staying put. Heads point to old students who came back to invest, and to a parent base that has decided the region is worth backing.

Whether it holds depends on the unglamorous things: fee discipline, exam logistics, and whether the next intake reads the region as a destination rather than a fallback.