📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 Original BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – start – June 7 ▶ P6, S3 & S5 – re-start – June 7 ▶ P4-P5 – holidays – June 4 📌 3-year plan to harmonize school calendar ✳ Terms 12 weeks ✳ Holidays 15-17 days ✳ No exams ✳ 2021 starts …
Read More »FULL TEXT: Museveni address on COVID-19
📌 KEY MEASURES ANNOUNCED ✳ Schools, higher institutions of learning closed for 42 days ✳ All teachers must get vaccinated ✳ Religious gatherings suspended ✳ Conferences suspended ✳ Marriage ceremonies, burials, parties maximum 20 people Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has closed all schools for 42 days, …
Read More »COVID-19: More schools close as cases rise
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More schools and institutions of learning have been forced to temporarily close after students and staff tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Green Hill Academy Secondary School (S1-S2) and Cavendish University Uganda are among the recent ones to suspend operations. In a letter to …
Read More »Full reopening of schools in doubt again after COVID-19 surge
Dr. Monica Musenero says the last thing being considered is the full operationalization of educational institutions 📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 NEW BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – June 7 ▶ P6, S3 & S5 – June 7 📌 3-year plan to harmonize school calendar ✳ Terms 12 weeks ✳ Holidays …
Read More »Parents complain about schools taking advantage of disorganized calendar to cheat them
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several parents are crying foul as school operators take advantage of the current disorganized education calendar to over-charge them in school fees and scholastic requirements. While reopening schools after a long unprecedented holiday of nine months as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) …
Read More »Ten schools face eviction from police land
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Schools that are illegally occupying police land have until July 24 to vacate or face forceful eviction. This is based on instructions by the Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola for the eviction of all illegal settlements on police land, to pave way for a …
Read More »Increase capitation before abolishing extra-charges in public schools – Educationists
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Players within the education sector have suggested that the government should first increase capitation grants before scrapping charges levied on parents in institutions implementing universal education. This followed a pronouncement by President Yoweri Museveni, during his inaugural speech as he starts a new …
Read More »Katakwi district gets UGX 300 million classroom blocks
Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Embassy of Japan in Uganda has commissioned two newly constructed and furnished classroom blocks at Oriou Primary School in Katakwi District. The 300 Million Shillings under the Assistance for grassroots Human Security Project grant covered two classroom blocks, 10 stance latrine and furniture for the …
Read More »Education ministry reiterates half term is strictly for marking centres only
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports has clarified on the half-term that was provided to schools that are going to be used as marking centres for the 2020 National examinations. A total of 40 schools, mainly located in Kampala, Wakiso, and Mukono districts were selected by …
Read More »Schools in Gulu struggling to get back Senior One students
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several secondary schools in Gulu City have recorded a drop in the number of learners in Senior One who resumed classes two weeks ago. Like all other schools, they reopened their doors for the return of non-candidates, who had stayed home since March 18, …
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