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Kampala, Uganda| GODFREY SSALI | The state minister for primary education Rosemary Nansubuga Seninde has warned head teachers and officials handling the mass enrolment of pupils and students to stop charging money to conduct the exercise. The ministry launched the registration exercise with a view of eliminating ghost pupils and has …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Tanzania President John Magufuli said students who become pregnant should not be allowed to finish their studies after giving birth, sparking outrage from women’s rights campaign groups. “I give money for a student to study for free. And then, she gets pregnant, gives birth and …

  One of the most respected educationists in Uganda, Joseph Almeida, has passed on at 92 in Goa, India. The news was broken Sunday morning by Rajni Taylor, a top official of the Ugandan-Asian community. Almeida was most famously remembered for his role as teacher and headmaster of Norman Godinho Primary …

Kampala, Uganda  | NSPC|  750 senior six leavers from all the districts in Uganda and students of Shimoni Primary Teachers College will undergo a two weeks patriotism training course at Shimoni grounds Bulindo, Wakiso District. The training, which will be conducted by National Secretariat for Patriotic Corps (NSPC), will take …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  At least 29 final year primary school pupils were killed in a bus crash in northern Tanzania on Saturday, along with two teachers and the driver, the school’s director said. “We lost 29 students and two of our staff, and the driver died too,” said …

New York, United States | AFP | An elite US boarding school that educated the likes of John F. Kennedy, Michael Douglas and Ivanka Trump has released a report detailing decades of alleged sexual abuse. Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, where tuition today costs in excess of $43,500, released a …

By Aloysious Kasoma Airtel Uganda has commissioned a second building at Ndeeba Primary School in Kayunga district under their corporate responsibility program known as adopt a school. According to the Managing Director V.G. Somasekar, the adopt a school program is a long term initiative for under privileged schools  and involves …

By Aloysious Kasoma Kawempe Muslim Secondary School has been closed after suffering the second fire incident in a period of one week. According to some sources at the school all students except those in candidate classes have been asked to go home temporarily as investigations into the cause of the fire …

By Rosario Achola Not silence and listening to the buzzing sound of a teacher Fagil Mandy is a former commissioner in the ministry of education and is in private consultancy in the sector.   He spoke to The Independent’s Rosario Achola about how education can be used to reduce the youth …