By Julius Odeke The Minister for Education and Sports Maj Jessica Alupo has expressed her disappointment over the complaints her office has received from the 50, 000 Primary Schools Teachers and Secondary Schools teachers, who have not received their salaries for October, 2012. Alupo stated that her ministry is not …
Read More »PLE starts today
By Joan Akello About 560,000 pupils will sit this year for their Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). They started with Mathematics this morning and social studies and religious education in the afternoon. Tomorrow, they will have science and end with English in the afternoon. The National Examinations Board (UNEB) released tight …
Read More »Higher education rebooted
By Tracy Gwambe But new policy on compulsory computer classes for HSC students tests school resources Up a dusty road in Kawempe Division of Kampala district lies Kawempe Royal College; a mixed day and boarding school behind a small blue gate. One of the teachers here, Shamira Naluyingi, is feeling …
Read More »Education that makes workers shine
By Mike Mahigigi Uganda lags while Kenya and Tanzania show simple ways to unlocking their potential There is worldwide consensus that youth aged 14 to 30 years are the most potentially economically dynamic segment of any population. Unfortunately in Uganda, 50 percent of youth, especially females, are not engaged in …
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By Dicta Asiimwe Shs150bn loan at stake as ministry of Education faces opposition over professional training institutions A meeting between ministry of Education officials and their counterparts from the ministry of Health on May 6 had an unusual agenda; formerly endorsing a World Bank-backed position on which ministry controls medical …
Read More »Education has gone to rot
By Onghwens Kisangala About three weeks ago, President Museveni on a local TV talk show strongly defended the quality of government services as he whipped out the growth of health sector from a few hundred hospitals in the 1980s to thousands of them today. However in an interview with The …
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