Tag Archives: Ministry of Education

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID is investigating more than 50 private secondary schools on allegations of inflating Universal Secondary Education –USE student enrollment to fleece the government billions of money. Charles Twine, CID Spokesperson, says that a probe is underway to establish how the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examination Board -UNMEB has asked the Ministry of Education to increase the entry points of students. Currently, for a student to be admitted to a nursing school, they should have scored at least a pass in science subjects like …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Education has stopped the construction of churches and mosques in community or public schools in Kampala.  The ministry’s move follows a number of land wrangles between the Ministry of Education, KCCA and religious institutions regarding land.  In the recent past, KCCA …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Education is set to meet the episcopal conference to iron out differences on the proposed sexuality education framework. The framework has five themes distributed across age groups from early childhood (3 – 5 years), lower primary (6 -9), upper primary (10 – …

NBS: Government and striking university non teaching staff have failed to agree on modalities of ending the industrial action that would allow a new academic year to open as scheduled. The negotiations hit a dead end following conflicting explanations from finance minister Matia Kasaija and his technocrats on whether the …