The effects of poverty on students’ academic performance, a case study of Nsangi Sub County in Wakiso District
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Date
2019-08
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Kampala International University,College of Education
Abstract
Evidence shows that in Uganda the number of those in poverty has continued to
increase every year. By 1986 when the national resistance movement (NRM) came
into power, it was estimated that 70%of Ugandans lived in poverty. In recent years it
has been a controversy through in the mind of the Ugandans through the poverty
status of the nation or any society or even family can have an impact on student’s
academic performance. In review of this study intends to investigate the positive and
negative impacts on students’ academic achievement in eastern Uganda This is
because the diversity of world poverty by different scholars who have used it in their
course of study and how they have affected their education performance academic
development and parents involvements
Description
Research report submitted to the college of education, open and
distance learning in partial fulfilment of the requirement for
the Award of Bachelors degree of Arts with Education, Kampala
International University
Keywords
poverty, Students, Academic perfomance