Education

There have been unconfirmed rumors that schools may start operating by the end of this month. The ministry of Education was tasked to meet with the Covid-19 task force to discuss the possibility of opening schools. The president promised that schools would resume by the end of September. The ministry of health has just confirmed that they actually made some ...

The fate of education in the presence of COVID is very blurry currently in Uganda. Since the closure of schools in March 2020, little has been said about the reopening of schools and yet it is already September. The education sector caters for a number of groups besides the students that is teachers, cooks, cleaners and so on. The president ...

At least 2253 students graduated with diplomas and degrees from Kampala International University (KIU) virtually  due to the Covid-19 pandemic it’s  22nd graduation last week. Of these, 871 were female while 1,382 were male. In his address to the grandaunts, chairman board of trustees, Al Haji Hassan Basajjabalaba, said in the pre-Covid era, many things in the job market had ...

Victoria University has announced a reduction in tuition and fees for all it’s continuing, new and prospective students. The move according to the university board aims to make higher education affordable and accessible during  this time of covid-19. The chairperson of the university council noted that following the challenges brought by the global health crisis, universities ought to make sound ...

With unpredictability of reopening schools and institutions in Uganda, School owners are worried over banks which have already started threatening to take on their property they mortgaged as security for loans they received. The secretary of the Federation of Non-State Education Institutions (FENEI) Mr Kaboyo Patrick told media that many of their members were given loans by commercial banks purposely ...