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By Ivan Rugambwa As news made rounds of delayed payment of Civil Servants’ Salaries, The Independent’s Ivan Rugambwa asked James Tweheyo; the general secretary of the Uganda National Teachers Union(UNATU) about negotiations with the government. When did your members last receive salaries? In April, some few in May, and extremely …

By Stephen Kafeero The government has earmarked shs 44.08 billion to address salary short falls in the months of May and June. The most affected people have been teachers and police officers with the former threatening to go on strike while the management of the latter had to improvise with …

 By Julius Odeke President Yoweri Museveni has promised teachers and the medics that his government will construct houses for them nationwide. The President made these remarks while celebrating the New Year at Kazo Secondary School in Kiruhuura District where he called upon the teachers to be patient as government gears …

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 …

By Rukiya Makuma Analysts argue that an across-the-board pay rise is impossible to the large number of Uganda’s teachers What is a 15 percent pay increase against 24 percent inflation? To which category of teachers? How is it going to be administered? Is it realistic?” asked Teopista Birungi Mayanja, general …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Government Primary schools opened for third session without teachers in classrooms and Makerere University remains closed. Teachers and lecturers are demanding pay rises which the government has rejected. The Independent’s Mubatsi Asinja Habati spoke to renowned educationist Prof. William Senteza Kajubi about this and more. When …

By Stephen Kafeero Both primary and secondary school teachers threatened a countryside strike demanding 100% salary rise. The government responded defiantly saying there was no money in the budget to cater for the wage increment. The Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATU) said the teachers’ poor pay has been compounded by …

By Stephen Kafeero Nyaburu Merab, a teacher at Bat Valley Primary School, is at crossroads with life. She is torn between staying on her job of miserable pay or leaving it and be jobless. She is now a Grade V teacher, having upgraded from Grade III. But she still earns …

By Isaac Mufumba Museveni’s electioneering at state of the nation address raises intriguing questions What do you say about a president who promises to increase the nations electricity power supply by 3,200 megawatts in five years when he has been in power for 24 years and, over that period, managed …