Private Schools To Flout Government Directive Of Maintaining Fees Structure

January 31, 2023 Education Comments Off on Private Schools To Flout Government Directive Of Maintaining Fees Structure

Experts have warned that private schools will find it quite difficult to abide by government directives concerning school fees. Apparently, the directive barring them from hiking fees won’t be followed if the statutory instrument is not in place. A lawyer, Michael Aboneka recently said that circulars and warnings will simply not cut it since they are not a law. Aboneka ...

Private Schools Explain Better Performance In PLE As Compared To Government Schools

January 30, 2023 Education Comments Off on Private Schools Explain Better Performance In PLE As Compared To Government Schools

Private schools performed better in the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) compared to the government institutions. This has been seen in the statistics released by theUganda National Examinations Board (UNEB).The private schools attributed their better performance to the relationship and verbal performance contract signed with parents.A colossal number of students from private schools beat their counterparts in government aided schools in ...

Headteachers Given Smartphones To Monitor Teachers

January 26, 2023 Education Comments Off on Headteachers Given Smartphones To Monitor Teachers

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 Seeking To Spike Candidate Fees

January 13, 2023 Education Comments Off on UNEB Seeking To Spike Candidate Fees

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 ...

Headteachers Asked To Stop Charging Fees As UPE Completion Rate Falls To 34%

January 13, 2023 Education Comments Off on Headteachers Asked To Stop Charging Fees As UPE Completion Rate Falls To 34%

Museveni: Tweeting Is Not One Of Africa's Problems

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 ...