Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | After a tough day of pitching ideas, four winning innovators walked away with UGX77m each from UNICEF to boost their capacity to provide solutions to socio-economic challenges affecting children mainly. The winning teams are SeatPack, Safe Water Harvester, KAINO Africa and Fine Reed innovates. They will also …
Read More »SCHOOLS: Senior 1s finally get to study again
📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ S1 – April 12 ▶ S2 – May 31 ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – June 7 📌 UNEB EXAMS TIMETABLE ✳ April 12- May 3 ▶ UACE exams 📌 3-year plan to harmonize school calendar ✳ Terms 12 weeks ✳ Holidays 15-17 days …
Read More »Tororo leaders meet to find solutions for rising poverty, poor roads, low rank hospital
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 …
Read More »P4 and P5 back at school, academic calendar ends in July
📌 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, …
Read More »Education ministry fails to utilize $25million from World Bank for technical schools
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 …
Read More »PLE: UNEB official arrested after exam container keys go missing
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 …
Read More »PLE: Rain, rain, go away
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. …
Read More »Many pupils to sit PLE without geometry sets
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 …
Read More »Teachers demand refund of sh330,000 paid before job interviews
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 …
Read More »Gov’t wants student teachers to undergo one full year of school practice
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 …
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