Governments and mobile operators are speeding up plans to shut down legacy networks as they navigate the high costs of transiting to faster and more efficient technologies. Nairobi, Kenya | BIRD NEWS AGENCY | African countries have begun retiring legacy networks – 2G and 3G – as the continent’s burgeoning …
Read More »Makerere online exam registration puzzles students
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several students at Makerere University are still struggling to register on the university e-learning platform ahead of the online assessment scheduled to start next week. The university management extended the date from September 6, 2021 to September 13, 2021 to address the concerns of students …
Read More »UCU secures free internet services for its e-learning platform
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Christian University has secured an offer for free internet services from MTN-Uganda to support its e-learning program. The University plans to officially resume it’s academic semester online this month after close to six months of inactivity as a result of a lockdown that …
Read More »Ministry reviews teacher education curricula to address pedagogy gaps
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports is reviewing the teacher education curricula to address gaps in methods, techniques, and approaches of teaching which were exposed by the COVID-19 unprecedented lockdown. The review comes amidst the continued closure of schools that has left more than …
Read More »Student leaders want government to declare 2020 dead year
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The leadership of Uganda Secondary School Prefect’s Association-USSPA wants government to declare the 2020 academic year, dead for all. According to USSPA, opening school for candidate classes will be unfair to the rest of the learners. The student leaders also say that the e-learning …
Read More »Universities petition NCHE over e-learning guidelines
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Universities and other institutions of higher learning have asked the National Council for Higher Education to reconsider guidelines barring them from implementing e-learning teaching without all students. The idea of ensuring that the online mode of learning doesn’t exclude any continuing student was first …
Read More »Education Minister clears e-learning programs for Universities
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Universities and other institutions of higher learning have been allowed to implement e-learning programs having established standard guidelines for the teaching approach to ensure continued learning during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown. The Ministry of Education and Sports recently advised universities which had embraced the …
Read More »Makerere University training staff on e-learning
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University has started teaching academic staff on how they can develop online learning materials that can be shared with students. This is for purposes of sustaining learning during the lockdown period since education institutions might stay closed. Recently, Makerere top management met during a …
Read More »Schools embrace virtual engagements in the face of COVID-19
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Schools in parts of Kampala and Wakiso is devising means to virtually engage children following the premature closure of educational institutions in the wake of the outbreak of the coronavirus disease-COVID-19. President Yoweri Museveni ordered the closure of schools as one of the measures …
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