This article was first published in the New Vision on March 10, 2021 By Conan Businge Students who have been scampering for placement in the few medical schools, now have hope. The Government is in the process of helping a private university set up another medical school. The Government is set to guarantee a loan […]
This article was first published on the New Vision website on April 11, 2023 Henry Sekanjako The Government has been asked to allocate sh42.1b to the national curriculum development center (NCDC) for the rollout of the new curriculum. The Parliamentary Committee on Education and Sports, recently recommended that the Ministry of Finance, planning, and economic […]
This article as first published on the New Vision Website on April 16, 2022 By David Lukiiza JINJA – Teachers from Eastern Uganda have commended the government for revising the old lower secondary curriculum to a new curriculum that focuses on students’ competencies. This was during the countrywide teachers’ awareness and sensitization workshop organized by the […]
This article was first published on the New Vision website on April 7, 2023 By John Masaba The government has announced that it will phase out the advanced craft certificate qualification. According to Onesmus Oyesigye, the executive secretary for the Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB), student enrollment in the course will be done […]
This article was first published on the New Vision website on April 8, 2023 By John Masaba New statistics released by the government show that student completion rates in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) are improving. According to Onesmus Oyesigye, the executive secretary of Uganda Business and Technical Examinations (UBTEB), this is an […]
By Enock Kibuuka It is now sixty years since Uganda became an independent state. Uganda’s socio-economic landscape has since metamorphosed seismically with political bellicosity and turmoil being a major characteristic, at least for the first thirty years after independence. However, it is worth noting that, out of these sixty years of independence, the National Resistance […]
By Andrew Masinde Residents in Bumasikye sub-county in Mbale district have asked the Government to take over a secondary school, which they established in 2013 to serve their community. Before Bumasikye Secondary School was set up, the learners in this community walked over 1o kilometres to get to either Busiu Secondary School or […]
By Richard Wetaya Since the 1920s, when the colonial government established technical education in Uganda, several secondary schools and tertiary institutions have been teaching clothing, textile, and leather science. Through the years, students in these courses have learnt the skills for turning textile and leather materials into products that are so essential in our lives […]
This article was first published in New Vision on January 29, 2014 By Stephen Ssenkaaba Nursery school used to be fun. Not anymore. Children have to be picked up from home at ‘ungodly’ hours, anywhere from 5:00 am to 6:00 am and ferried in vans to school. The regulations are stringent. The little boys and […]
This article was first published in New Vision on January 29, 2014 By Deborah Magera Nursery education is referred to as a continual process of human development, physically, socially, emotionally and mentally from the time of conception to the initial stages of formal schooling. During the early years, a child is guided by natural laws […]