Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MTN Uganda’s corporate social responsibility arm, MTN Foundation, has facilitated the graduation of 156 youths from its prestigious Computer Applications User Occupation and vocational and business skills programs as it continues with its journey to enhance diversity, equity and inclusiveness in the communities. The …
Read More »Parents to receive registration fee refund as ministry ditches DIT Component
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The new lower secondary curriculum has been hit by another controversy as the Ministry of Education and Sports takes a stand to ditch the Directorate of Industrial’s scheduled assessment for senior three students. In this fresh twist, the education ministry has halted the assessment …
Read More »New curriculum: DIT allocating assessment centre numbers to schools
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Industrial Training–DIT has started allocating assessment center numbers to all secondary schools. This is in line with the new lower secondary curriculum that was introduced by the government in 2020 for skills development. The pre-vocational subjects are summarized under eight including Information …
Read More »Gov’t develops training, assessment manuals for herbalists
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Industrial Training (DIT) has unveiled assessment and training packages for herbalists as part of the efforts to formalize their training and processors of herbal medicines. The National Drug Authority-NDA and Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Institute (NCRI) developed the training package that falls under …
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