Tag Archives: Education

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  In the first sign of a new beginning, a record seven MPs who hail from Tororo met this week to chart a way forward for their struggling district. Of immediate concern to the MPs are the latest Uganda poverty figures, that put Bukedi not …

📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ P4 & P5 – April 6 ▶ S1 – April 12 ▶ S2 – May 31 ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – June 7 📌 UNEB EXAMS TIMETABLE ✳ April 9 ▶ UACE briefing ✳ April 12- May 3 ▶ UACE exams Kampala, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Education Ministry has been faulted for failing to kick-start a $25million World Bank funded project for four years despite the disbursement of funds. The five-year Albertine Region Sustainability Development Project III was designed to upgrade two technical Institutions; the Uganda Petroleum Institute Kigumba …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Kyotera have arrested the UNEB manager for PLE station 53 in Kalisizo. It is said that Irene Namono disappeared with the key to the exam container at Kalisizo police station for several hours and was nowhere to be seen by 8:45 am …

Heavy rains disrupt start of PLE, late start expected in many places Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Heavy rains have this morning disrupted the start of the Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE in different parts of the country.  At many examination storage centres, there were no teachers to receive the materials. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wakiso district educationists are worried that many pupils are set to sit their Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) without essential school study requirements like geometry sets, rulers and pens. The district inspector of schools, George Wiliam Mwanje says that the requirements which some pupils are lacking …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ogom Seed Secondary School teachers have petitioned school authorities in Pader district, demanding a refund of sh7.7 million which they claim was illegally extorted from all of them before they were allowed to sit recruitment interviews. They say the reported extortion happened February and …

    Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDETN | The Ministry of Education and Sports is proposing that teacher trainees should carry out school practice for one a full year as one of the key ingredients to improve the quality of the teachers produced from teacher training institutions. The suggestion is …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Police at Makerere University are hunting for a fraudster who disappeared with Sh2 million belonging to a new student (fresher), who gave it to him after he offered to miraculously double it. It was the student’s tuition fees. Campus police have also revealed …

Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE  | The 10th NSSF-Monitor Career Expo is set to begin tomorrow and will go on for three days virtually, the NSSF Managing Director Richard Byarugaba and Nation Media Group Uganda Managing Director Tony Glencross told reporters earlier today (March 23).  The two executives said COVID-19 pandemic preventive …