Education

The Education Ministry under a designed system of Teachers Effectiveness and Learners Achievements (TELA) is equipping headteachers in Nebbi District with smartphones. This is to monitor the performance and absenteeism of teachers in schools. According to government, “TELA monitoring system is a platform which enables information exchange. This is between various stakeholders in the management of primary schools and secondary ...

UNEB Executive Director, Mr. Daniel Odongo, says the examination body needs to raise revenue. Apparently he said this is necessary if it is to render quality services to the people that it serves. Therefore, one of the many ways the body hopes to raise revenue will be raising candidate fees. Parents with children in candidate classes hoping to write their ...

President Museveni recently asked Universal Primary and Secondary Education schools headteachers to stop asking for fees from learners. He said this act distorts government’s plan of promoting human resource development. This plan is apparently needed for implementing the social-economic transformation agenda in the country. “Let’s agree on the strategy that the route to socio-economic transformation is to remove obstacles that ...

As the graduation month draws closer, Makerere University Academic Registrar has ordered colleges to display the provisional graduation lists. Prof. Buyinza Mukadasi announced the directive in a 9th January letter. He addressed it to all principals, deans, and Heads of Departments. It comes a little over a month before the graduation ceremony at Makerere University. Over 12,000 students are set ...

Charles Mbena Mathias is a 6-year old mathematics genius who comes from one of the rural areas of Morogoro, eastern part of Tanzania. The 6 year old has received lots of praises over the internet as a mathematics genius. Charles Mbena came in spotlight after his teacher only identified as Sophia posted a video clip of him answering mathematics questions ...