Tag Archives: Curriculum

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Minister of Education and Sports Janet Museveni has apologized for any misunderstanding with parliament, as government rolls out of the lower secondary school curriculum. She explained in a statement why her ministry continued roll out of the lower secondary school curriculum contrary to the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Curriculum Development Centre has said that Members of Parliament who claim that they were not consulted before the new lower secondary curriculum was approved, are not telling the truth. Speaking to journalists at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala yesterday, Grace Baguma, the …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Education and Sports Ministry will struggle to implement the planned national roll out of the lower secondary curriculum unless required funding is secured. Only Shillings 10.3 billion out of the required Shillings 40 billion for the curriculum implementation has been released by …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah has summoned the Education Minister to address Parliament about the revised lower secondary curriculum scrapping term examinations. Oulanyah made the directive on Friday after Igara East MP Michael Mawanda questioned several issues in the revised curriculum whose implementation starts next …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB) has commenced a two-week training for assessors, lecturers, and tutors for 18 training programs under the new curriculum. The training according to Onesmus Oyesigye, the UBTEB executive secretary is aimed at equipping skills and competences to …

President, University VCs meet over curriculum development President Yoweri Museveni has directed that each public university seconds a lecturer to work with National Curriculum Development Center on the proposed reforms of the Lower and Secondary Education Curriculum. The intended reforms will see a reduction in the number of subjects taught in …

By Ronald Musoke The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) will, beginning this month (April), embark on the second phase of reforming Uganda’s lower-secondary school curriculum. The project which has been running since Nov. 2011 will see S1-S4 students shift from the current system where a student learns over 14 subjects …

By Morris DC Komakech It’s an opportunity to have pupils’ intellect judged not by scores in English alone but math and sciences also A couple of MPs have been fuming that the thematic curriculum is responsible for poor performance of some pupils in the just concluded Primary Leaving Examination. They …

By Ronald Musoke Its developers are being criticised for using O-level students as ‘guinea pigs’ A recent move by the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) to overhaul the O-Level curriculum and have it in use by 2015 has drawn mixed reactions. The main feature of the reforms is a whittling …