Tag Archives: private schools

Teachers have been suffering from anxiety about the future and economic uncertainty Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders of private schools have asked the Ministry of Education and Sports to offer psychosocial support to teachers. Since March 2020 when the government closed all educational institutions following the outbreak of Covid-19, teachers …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Members of Parliament are calling for a Shs100 million recovery package to assist schools and other institutions of learning as they plan to re-open. Legislators argue that the two year closure of these institutions due to the Covid-19 pandemic has crippled private institutions’ …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A section of private schools are worried about the government’s delay to release the school calendar. The Ministry of Education has been adjusting the school calendar due to the circumstances brought by the pandemic. In June, the government closed schools for the second time forcing …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has urged government to come up with a plan to support private schools that have suffered financial loss due to the prolonged closure. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, government closed education institutions in March 2020, partially opened up in October and later imposed …

Teachers are abandoning the profession completely in favour of personal business Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Some private schools around Kampala and Wakiso are operating while understaffed, while others have resorted to hiring part time teachers. The unstable situation in schools has resulted from some private teachers abandoning the profession to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Ministry of Education and Sports has recalled the registration certificates of all private secondary schools across the country.  Edward Ssebukyu, the Assistant Commissioner of Private Schools and institutions, says the decision is aimed at cleaning up the private secondary school’s register and update information on …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of State for Cooperatives, Fredrick Gume has tasked the managers of Walimu Cooperative savings and credit union Limited – Wasu to extend credit facilities to teachers attached to private schools so as to boost their monthly incomes. Wasu has a membership of over …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Private Educational Institutions Association has requested government to pay salaries for teachers who have greatly been affected by the closure of schools for at least a year. Appearing before the Parliamentary committee on National Economy to present a situation report on how …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The ministry of education and sports is urging private schools to take part in the secondary school selection process so that learners have a wide range of choices and also to decrease on possibilities of placing students who later fail to turn up where they …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) will fine public school headteachers who have been fraudulently registering candidates from private schools that have no UNEB centre numbers as government-sponsored candidates. UNEB says that each school which will be found practising the illegality will be requested to refund …