Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Examinations Board ( UNEB) has asked all headmasters to display a list of their candidates for the national 2022 examinations with effect from Saturday August 13. The registers should be displayed in a conspicuous place at the school notice board to enable …
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Kampala, Uganda | Ronald Musoke | Pascaline Aburi Albino, a South Sudanese university student in Juba, South Sudan, is convinced the protracted armed conflict in her country has left a negative impact on the education of South Sudanese children. Aburi, 24, says many of her peers and children younger than her …
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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Vice President Jessica Alupo has cautioned students against resorting to strikes whenever they are expressing dissatisfaction over any situation in school. She says that it is high time students embrace dialogue with the school administrators to iron out their grievances in an amicable way …
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Education is not a privilege, nor is it an opportunity, it is a human right United Nations | Xinhua | Academics, experts, government officials and representatives of educational organizations on Wednesday called for efforts and actions to improve the quality of education across the world and place student needs at the …
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Accra, Ghana | Xinhua | The World Bank Group seeks to double its funding for education in the Western and Central African region by 2025 to accelerate the work of educational reforms, a senior official of the bank said on Monday. Ousmane Diagana, the World Bank Vice President for Western and …
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How government may have opened a Pandora’s box by creating huge salary disparities among its employees THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | There seems to be haphazardness in the government of Uganda that is hard to fathom. One case in point is the way they have caused a …
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Teachers: How Museveni’s strategy is failing COVER STORY | MUBATSI ASINJA HABATI | Non-science teachers in government secondary schools across the country, their primary school counterparts, and tutors in teacher training colleges who are on strike demanding unbiased pay appear to have President Yoweri Museveni cornered. Although the President is talking …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Unending teacher strikes: How Museveni’s strategy is failing THE LAST WORD On the teachers’ strike: How government may have opened a pandora’s box by creating huge salary disparities among its employees COMMENT Bobi …
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A huge chunk of 2022/23 Shs48.1tn budget will go to the usual sectors of works and transport, security, health and education NEWS ANALYSIS | ISAAC KHISA | Uganda’s national budget, read on June.14, has drawn mixed reactions from various players, with manufacturers partly welcoming it but the civil society …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | ‘We must budget for compulsory primary school education and stop these greedy teachers from sending children back home’, President Yoweri Museveni has urged lawmakers. ( read full budget speech bottom) This was in his address to Parliament following the presentation of the 2022/2023 financial year budget …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
