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Quality Assurance in Uganda's Education System: Institutional Architecture, Implementation Failures, and a Framework for Transformative Reform

Uganda has developed a dense institutional architecture for quality assurance (QA) in education, including the Directorate of Education Standards, the National Council for Higher Education, the Uganda National Examinations Board, and the National Curriculum Development Centre, yet system-level learning outcomes remain persistently weak. This paper tackles three core questions: how “quality” is conceptualized and operationalized within this QA framework relative to a meaningful notion of educational quality; how key QA institutions function in practice compared to their formal mandates; and whi…