Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More community libraries should be built as a solution to the chronic failure by learners to master the English language at various levels, the Education and Sports Minister, Janet Kataha Museveni has proposed. She was responding to complaints from the Uganda Business and …
Read More »Education Ministry to start tracking school dropouts – Janet Museveni
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education is to begin tracking students to see why the numbers keep on dropping at all levels. Janet Kataha Museveni, the Minister of Education and Sports says they are worried that many students enroll at different education levels of education but …
Read More »Cram work persists in schools as pupils fall short on problem solving
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Most of the pupils in last year’s Primary Leaving Examinations took to cramming their classwork to reproduce in examinations than understanding, UNEB results show. This was clear as pupils excelled in questions that asked for direct answers and were therefore easy to cram than questions …
Read More »Education sector budget reduced by UGX 111 billion – Janet Museveni
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |The Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataha Museveni says that her Ministry faces a risk of not implementing several activities because of the reduction in budget. She says activities worth Shillings 1.68 trillion in the coming financial year 2020/2021 will not be implemented in …
Read More »Janet asks MAK to investigate low female student numbers pursuing Masters and PhDs
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataha Museveni has tasked Makerere University officials to investigate why few women graduated this year at the postgraduate level. While the university had more women graduating on the overall, fewer women are graduating at higher levels of …
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