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’ …
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Parents should pay by mobile money using the shortcodes provided if they can’t afford the charges because the system is free Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bankers have advised parents paying school fees to use alternatives if they do not want to pay bank charges. Most commercial banks are also …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Elderly persons receiving the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment are mostly spending the money they are given to pay school fees for children under their care instead of using the funds to improve on their livelihoods. The sad but commendable revelation was made during the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement-NRM is proposing to introduce a national school feeding programme and remove of all forms of school fees for learners in public schools. The two ideas are among the list of proposals in the education sector highlighted in the party manifesto for …
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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 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Education and Sports Janet Museveni is going to embark on a national tour to ‘investigate variances in school dues across the country. Mrs Museveni said this during a meeting with secondary school’s head teachers, principals of Business Technical and Education Training …
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Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A primary school head teacher in Mbarara district has been arrested for unlawfully soliciting for money from parents. Jolly Tumwebaze, the Head Teacher at Kabingo One Primary School in Nyakayojo Division was arrested after she reportedly sent pupils home for failing to pay …
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