Tag Archives: Janet Museveni

Karamoja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The biting poverty in Karamoja region has compelled the beneficiaries of the improved housing project under the Office of the Prime Minister in Karamoja to rent out the houses allocated to them to earn a living. The families have now returned to the traditional grass-thatched …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Education and Sports Ministry is discussing possible alternatives of ensuring that learners achieve the desired learning outcomes pending the government’s decision in January next year on whether or not to reopen studies for non-candidate classes. The learners were in the middle of the first …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The government has been advised to work towards ensuring the full-scale reopening of all educational institutions.     In October schools reopened, but only for candidate classes, after more than six months of inactivity following the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. Speaking at the Ministry of …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Ministry of Education has warned schools against giving external mock examinations to learners as they wait to sit for their UNEB finals. In April, the Minister of Education, Janet Museveni banned schools from giving candidates several mock examinations as is the normal practice. She …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement-NRM is proposing to introduce a national school feeding programme and remove of all forms of school fees for learners in public schools. The two ideas are among the list of proposals in the education sector highlighted in the party manifesto for …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | As schools financially struggle to reopen after seven months of lockdown, President Yoweri Museveni has donated 100 million Shillings to a primary school in his village of Rushere in Rwakirura district.  In a press statement issued by the presidential press unit, Museveni on top of …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The ministry of education and sports has warned institutions to desist from pestering parents to provide facial masks for finalists. This comes following several reports that schools are asking parents to provide as many as five facial masks and shields for their children ahead …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  A Human Rights Activist has petitioned High Court Civil Division to block the intended reopening of schools in the country. Gideon Tugume, the Executive Director of Human Rights Defenders Association Uganda HURIDA –Ug the intended reopening of schools is badly planned, illegal and discriminatory.   …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several members of the teachers’ association, private schools and institutions and the COVID-19 committee, are locked up in a meeting with Education Minister Janet Museveni, to iron out issues surrounding the proposed reopening of schools. The meeting comes after a roadmap issued by the …

📌UGANDA’S PLAN FOR PHASED RE-OPENING OF EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS ✳ Schools & Institutions of higher learning re-open for candidates & finalists October 15 ✳ Assessment of progress after a month ✳ No mass testing before school starts ✳  Restart in TERM 2 with a revised education calendar ✳ Term 2 from …