Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ministry of education and sports says that no learner or teacher will at any time be allowed to use general public transport including taxis, vans and boda bodas when schools reopen for finalists who are scheduled to report to their respective schools on …
Read More »Gov’t advises parents to enroll finalists in nearby schools
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities from the health and education ministries are advising parents to enroll their children in schools near their homes to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 as they go to school. The advice comes a few days after President Yoweri Museveni gave a green …
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 »PTC graduates ask gov’t to rethink teacher education in wake of Covid-19
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fresh graduates from Primary Teachers’ Colleges-PTCs have asked the Ministry of Education to rethink teacher education in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. They argue that they are not fully equipped to handle the teaching-learning process during and after COVID-19. Uganda closed all education …
Read More »Professor Balunywa calls for dialogue on reopening universities
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University Business School (MUBS) Principal Waswa Balunywa wants the government to allow universities come up with their strategy on how to implement the Covid-19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) issued by the Ministry of Health so that universities can resume their operations. In March, President …
Read More »Gov’t approves 80 vocational training courses
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports has approved 80 new internationally adapted courses to be offered by 18 training institution across the country. These include nine courses in the oil and gas field and more than 70 others in vocational training programmes. The oil …
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 »Karangura residents petition education ministry over reallocation of funds for seed school
Kabarole, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports has intervened after Kabarole district council reallocated funds meant to complete St Joseph’s Karangura secondary school. Last week, 38 residents of Karangura sub county petitioned the Kabarole district Chief Administrative Officer, Phiona Sanyu, protesting the decision by Kabarole …
Read More »World Bank approves UGX 554Bn to support secondary education in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Bank has approved a fund of $150 million (approximately 554 billion shillings) to enable greater access to higher-quality secondary education among Ugandan children in safer and better-equipped learning environments. The project dubbed Uganda Secondary Education Expansion Project- USEEP is financed by an International …
Read More »PWDs in Amuru demand for special needs schools
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parents of children with disabilities in Amuru district have asked leaders to set up a special needs school in the district. Currently, the district has no special needs school with the nearest schools being in neighbouring Gulu district. The district has an estimate of …
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