Busoga College Mwiri, once a powerful school that produced lawyers, doctors, engineers, journalists and some of the most prominent politicians in Uganda today did not have any student admitted on government sponsorship at Makerere University this year.
According to the list, no student from Mwiri qualified for government sponsorship on any course at Makerere University and MUBS. Both instutitions admitted a total of 1500 students on government sponsorship.
The fact that Mwiri has no government sponsored student speaks to the school’s rapid fall in academic standards, a decline that started in the early 2000s.
Over the years, old boys under their association, Mwiri Old Boys Association (MOBA) have tried to revive the school’s old glory but to no avail.
Busoga College Mwiri which used to have over 1,000 students in the 90s now has less than 800 students.
Mwiri is the sixth oldest secondary school in the country after Mengo SS (1895), Namilyango College (1902), Gayaza High School (1905), Kings College Budo (1906), and St Mary’s College Kisubi (1906).
The school was founded in January 1911 by Basoga princes who had studied at Kings College Buddo and the Church Missionary Society, a group of Anglican missionaries.
Yet Mwiri’s poor performance is mirrored by other prominent schools in the Busoga sub region.
Kiira College Butiki was the best performing school in the sub region taking 05 students on government sponsorship. It was followed by Jinja Progessive Annex which had 04 students.
