FULL SPEECH: Janet Museveni on way forward for schools

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Schools, through their management and board of governors are expected to negotiate with parents on how to best handle fees for the second term, taking into account term one was not completed, yet many had paid, while the institutions continued incurring costs during the COVID-19 lockdown.

The Minister insisted there should be no extra costs, even if government schools took on extra children from private schools that will not be able to reopen, saying numbers would be low since it is only finalists.

“We are confident that government supported schools can meat the costs using the capitation grant, while private schools from the fees. It is not necessary to build new infrastructure now, since we are taking in few students…..so, we think the major drivers for additional costs would only be hand washing and disinfection facilities, temperature monitoring tools and face masks,” she said.

Janet Museveni revealed that her Ministry has requested for additional funds to help in the re-opening of schools, and supporting teachers.

UNEB exams

The Executive Secretary of the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) Dan Odongo said they are waiting for the ministry to come out with the revised school calendar.

“The exam is a process that takes place within the school calendar. UNEB has proposed that if schools open on October 15, immediately we will start the process of registration of candidates. We are finalizing the software that is needed, but the time they go back to school, they will be able to start registering,” he said.

“We expect it will take us about 5 weeks, by mid November the registration process will be complete. Then the internal activities, including printing the exam papers.”

UNEB plans to administer the Uganda Certificate of Education for a month from March 1.

It will be followed by the Primary Leaving Education (PLE) March 30th and 31 March. The UACE examinations will start after Easter on April 12th, to end of the school calendar at end of April.

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