Education

Specialists from the Education sector have tasked teachers with blending Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in their teaching profession. They said this will be the only way to match with the current trends taking the modern world over. The call came through on Friday May 20th 2022 during the 11th graduation ceremony where 1,388 teachers graduated from National teachers college ...

Arts teachers will have to stand on their own as their science counterparts have come out to say they do not share the same course. Vincent Elong, President Uganda Professional Science Teacher’s Union, has said as science teachers, they are not responsible for the salaries of arts teachers. Vincent was responding to questions why they are only campaigning for salary ...

General Secretary Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU), Filbert Baguma has said increasing school fees should not be an option. The fact that everything has increased starting from fuel, it can’t leave the school fees the same. According to him, parents should understand but also schools should be realistic as they increase tuition. “You can’t say don’t increase fees yet everything ...

The National Curriculum Development Center-NCDC has plans of collaborating with teachers’ associations to train more teachers on the revised Lower Secondary Curriculum in schools. Through the Ministry of Education, the government rolled out the new lower secondary education curriculum in February 2020. This intentionally happened to meet learners’ needs, especially regarding skills training and enhancement. Among the Associations to collaborate ...

At 62 years of age, an ordinary grandma would have completely forgotten about school to focus on ageing gracefully and spending time with her grandchildren. And perhaps preparing for the afterlife. However, for Maureen Ngoma, that has become the start of a new dream. She wants to get an education and she has started it by enrolling into primary school. ...