Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education has asked teachers to integrate aspects of sexuality education in lessons. Henry Semakula, a senior official in the Ministry said on Monday that they want the teachers to spend a few minutes in whatever subjects they are teaching to hint on sexuality …
Read More »Pallisa district fails to recruit teachers, health workers for three years
Pallisa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pallisa district has failed to recruit teachers and health workers for the past three years. The Pallisa District Chief Administrative officer Joseph Mayila Mukasa says that the district last conducted interviews three years ago before Butebo district was carved out of Pallisa. Mukasa says that …
Read More »Private school teachers surviving on handouts from parents
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A number of private school teachers are surviving on handouts from sympathetic parents as school proprietors are unable to pay them because of the lockdown. Private schools are majorly dependent on tuition paid by learners to finance their operations. The abrupt closure of the …
Read More »Tunisia hopes novel methods will aid virus fight
Tunis, Tunisia | AFP | The feared impact of coronavirus on Tunisia’s fragile public health system has provoked a flurry of innovation from robotics to digitalisation efforts to bolster the North African country’s pandemic response. The government has even turned to students for help, asking the engineering school in Sousse, south …
Read More »For one Ukrainian startup, coronavirus means business is booming
Kiev, Ukraine | AFP | The headquarters of Dmytro Voloshyn’s startup in the historic centre of Kiev is eerily quiet. But online, his business is busier than ever. Despite a crippling global economic crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, Voloshyn believes a worldwide lockdown to slow infections was just what …
Read More »Kampala raid on schools nets 74 teachers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to 74 teachers were this afternoon questioned by the police after being rounded up in an enforcement operation of measures to control the spread of COVID-19. Of these, 21 of the teachers were picked from Kabojja Junior School, where, according to the school …
Read More »We need to test teachers to improve performance- Educationist
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Educationists in Soroti want government to introduce routine assessments of teachers across the country to improve on the performance of students especially in science subjects. Martin Okiria Obore, the National Chairperson of Secondary Head Teachers Union in Uganda, says that whereas government has done a …
Read More »Bubukwanga teachers, students decry lack of scholastic materials
Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Teachers of Bubukwanga Secondary School in Bundibugyo District are decrying the lack of scholastic materials. The government aided school which started in 2015 has an enrollment of over 600 students. However, the school lacks a library, textbooks for both teachers and students and a series …
Read More »Ugandan teachers lack motivation to teach – Educationists
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | World renown educationists are calling government to motivate teachers to teach as a means of improving the quality of education in the country. The call was made during the National Teachers Symposium that begun in Kampala on Wednesday. According to educationists teachers need better salaries …
Read More »Acholi teachers: We are half baked to roll out revised curriculum
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A number of secondary school teachers in Acholi sub-region trained in the revised lower secondary curriculum; say they need sufficient time to grasp the syllabus before it is rolled out to learners. This week, Ministry of Education and Sports through the National Curriculum Development Centre …
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