Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports has started a nationwide validation exercise of staff in public schools. Recently, the Uganda National Teacher’s Union-UNATU requested the government to make an update of its payroll to ascertain the teachers who will be available when the schools reopen. Filbert …
Read More »Gov’t to operationalize 117 seed secondary schools
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports has started a process to operationalize new 117 seed secondary schools that had been stalled over the last years. Patrick Muinda, the Ministry of Education spokesperson notes that more than 41 Billion Shillings has been allocated in the current …
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 »Gov’t provides UGX 2.1B for Nakatsi seed secondary school construction
Bududa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has allocated Shillings 2.1 billion for the construction of Nakatsi seed secondary school in Bududa district. The money will be used to construct six class room blocks, 2 teacher’s houses, two latrines, library, computer lab, laboratory and playground. The construction works were commissioned over …
Read More »Education ministry extends holiday for over 20 schools
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Education and Sports Ministry has extended holidays for over 20 government aided schools that will be used to train teachers on the new lower secondary school curriculum. Some of the affected schools include Mount St Mary’s Namgunga, St Mary’s Kisubi, Trinity College Nabbingo, Kololo …
Read More »Education Ministry gets 10 Billion to roll out new O’level curriculum
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ministry of Education (MOE) has secured 10 billion shillings to kick start the roll out of the Lower Secondary School Curriculum. The money has been approved in the 2020/2021 Education budget. The total amount needed to roll out part of the Curriculum this …
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