Tag Archives: School

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Ministry of Education and Sports has dismissed claims circulating both online and offline that schools across Uganda have been closed or suspended because of Ebola. The false reports have spread widely on social media platforms and through word-of-mouth conversations in recent days, causing concern …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | More than half of Uganda’s sub-counties and town councils do not have a single secondary school, a glaring exposure of the deep inequalities in access to post-primary education, despite years of government efforts to expand universal secondary education. Findings contained in the Uganda Bureau of …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | A digital school fee loan system is helping thousands of learners in Uganda stay in school by bridging persistent gaps in household income, with at least 31,000 students already supported through mobile-based financing solutions. The intervention, driven by fintech firm Furaha Finserve Uganda Ltd in …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Government has clarified that schools are not banned from operating day care centres, but must comply with new regulations requiring each section to function as a separate, licensed entity. Dr Safina Mutumba, the Assistant Commissioner in charge of Pre-primary Education at the Ministry of Education …

Bududa, Uganda | URN | Bududa District is grappling with a high number of out-of-school children, with child labour and hunger among the leading causes. According to the 2024 National Population and Housing Census, the district has a population of over 267,407 people across 75,751 households, and more than 45,000 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Tuesday evening, Amina Namuwaya arrived at Immaculate Heart Primary School as she had done countless times before. She expected to walk straight to her children’s classrooms, collect them, and head home. Instead, school authorities restricted her at the gate. “Last week I wasn’t …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Phibby Namutebi, a caretaker at the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Centre, says she struggled to save the children from the assailant who chased her with a knife. Her testimony closed the first day of the trial of Christopher Onyum Okello, the suspect in the brutal …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | What started as a small language initiative in Kampala has steadily transformed into a regional institution, mirroring the changing educational aspirations of East Africa. The Kampala German Language School began at a time when interest in learning German in Uganda was still developing, offering …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | President Yoweri Museveni has extended financial support of Sh10 million each to four families whose children were brutally killed in last week’s attack at Ggaba Early Childhood Development Center, as calls for justice continue to intensify. The contribution was delivered by State Minister for Youth …

Jinja, Uganda | URN | In the modest kitchens of Akola Academy, near the shores of the River Nile at Busowoko village in Jinja, the scent of chicken and slow-cooking stews fills the air as young women in white and black uniforms work with calm precision. Not long ago, many …