Tag Archives: Education

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The education sector has taken a lion share in the budget estimates for 2020/2021 financial year across the districts in the Teso sub region. In Kumi district, the education budget increased by more than 600,000 shillings from the current financial year budget of 10.1 …

Advocates of a dead year for schools are similar to the advocates of a continuous lockdown of the economy to defeat COVID-19 OPEN LETTER |  Ass. Prof Mesharch Katusiimeh Rwebiita |  Your Excellency, as government is mulling over the fate of education institutions in this COVID-19 new normal, a group is …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Proposals to cancel the 2020 academic year for learners at all levels of education have been received with mixed reactions among parents. Schools and other educational institutions were closed on March 20, as the government announced measures to control the spread of coronavirus disease. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament want the government to declare 2020 a dead year for education because of the increasing cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country. While meeting the members of the Uganda Vice Chancellors Forum today, members of the National Economy committee of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Inherent inequalities in accessing the internet and other tools to allow children to continue their studies threaten to deepen the global crisis in learning, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday. UNICEF data reveals that in 71 countries worldwide, less than half the …

MEASURES CONFIRMED ✳ June 4 – Resumption of public transport ✳ June 4 – Shopping malls to open ✳ Candidate class schools reopening plan postponed by a month ✳ Decision on Churches, Mosques delayed ✳ Decision on sports delayed Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has delayed a …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports is planning to set up a factory to manufacture sanitary pads that will be distributed at no cost to all girls in school across the country. This will be in implementation of a presidential pledge to provide …

It is very clear that guidelines will impose more Covid-19 prevention related costs on schools. Who will meet the extra costs? COMMENT | Justus Mugisha | We all breathed a sigh of relief when President Yoweri Museveni on Monday  announced partial re-opening of schools. But the more I think about …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Continuing education through alternative learning pathways has been prioritized since the closure of schools nearly two months ago as a measure to control the spread of coronavirus disease. But the adoption of the new remote learning systems has been a challenge in an environment where …

Cotonou, Benin | AFP |  Benin on Saturday was conducting mass coronavirus testing of teachers ahead of the reopening of schools as part of a plan to loosen measures against the pandemic. The West African nation of 11 million is set to end six weeks of travel restrictions to key …