Tag Archives: Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU)

Richard Mwebaze, the Chief Legal Officer of UNATU, has said the salary segregation has brought a separation between arts and science teachers. Apparently, in some schools, science teachers and arts teachers now sit separately. The root cause of this, he says is the government that decided to uphold one group above the other. He said this while on a late-night ...

Up to date, the arts teachers have maintained their strike for salary increment and have declined further teaching of students. However, the general secretary of the Uganda Professional Science Teachers Union, Mr Aron Mugaiga has advised them to reconsider. He advised the Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATU) leadership to advise its members to return to class as they continue to ...

The government has ordered striking teachers to resume their work by June 24. Failure to do so, the government will scrap their names off payroll. The development came through a letter to the Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATU) dated June 22, 2022. Catherine Bitarakwate Musingwiire, the Public Service Ministry Permanent Secretary, noted that teachers just like all other government employees ...

Kalungu East member of Parliament Hon Francis Katabazi Katongole has come out to reveal his thoughts on government’s recent increase of science teachers’ salaries countrywide. According to Katabazi, this move might be aimed at weakening private schools. This is because when they increase salaries of government teachers, those in private schools too will demand for the same. And with some ...

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 ...