Tag Archives: parents

Bunyangabu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Headteachers and other school administrators in Bunyangabu district have expressed mixed reactions over a move by the government to open schools for candidate classes. Many of them say that the government should have considered a dead academic year to give them enough time to …

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 …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Education Ministry has drafted new guidelines to offer actionable guidance for safe reopening and running of education institutions and reduce the impact of the pandemic on teaching and learning.    Although the government is yet to officially announce dates for the reopening of schools, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of leaders in Acholi sub region want parents to be harshly held responsible for child pregnancies in the community. They allege that the increasing cases of child pregnancies in the region especially Amuru, Kitgum, Pader, Omoro and Nwoya districts are linked to permissiveness …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of parents have petitioned the ministry of education and sports over certain schools that have consistently requested illegal school fees to conduct online lessons during this period when schools remain closed. In a petition written through Simon Tendo Kabenge Advocates, the angered …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parents in Kasese district are accusing the LC1 offices of charging them money to access learning materials that were provided by the government. The Ministry of Education distributed self-study materials to facilitate continuity of learning as schools remain closed across the country. Although the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has directed the Minister of Education to urgently present guidelines to be followed by parents with learners in candidate classes. While addressing the nation on Tuesday in regard to the easing of the lockdown occasioned by the outbreak of coronavirus disease in the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A number of private school teachers are surviving on handouts from sympathetic parents as school proprietors are unable to pay them because of the lockdown. Private schools are majorly dependent on tuition paid by learners to finance their operations. The abrupt closure of the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There are mixed reactions among parents and educationists on the efficacy of teaching using distance learning on radio’s and television platforms as encouraged under the Education response plan released by the Ministry of Education. Many parents say that they did not get enough time …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As a studies resume, parents have been warned to beware of schools that call themselves kindergartens and yet offer the primary school curriculum. Experts in Child Health and Development argue that this is disastrous to the developing capabilities of the little child as exposure to …