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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has asked the government to reopen schools as soon as possible to avert what he called a waiting catastrophe. Speaking on Friday at the party headquarters to remember the lives of his supporters who have died in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government might find it hard to re-align the education sector due to lack of competent teachers resulting from the continued closure of schools, experts have warned. While the closure of schools has managed to contain the spread of COVID-19, educationists are worried that the country …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several private schools are worried about the increasing departure of foreign students because of the prolonged closure of schools resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike in Uganda where schools are still closed because of the second wave of COVID-19, schools in Kenya, Tanzania, South …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bugweri District Inspector of Schools, Swaibu Ssekimuli is in trouble for allegedly mismanaging the examination registration fees of primary seven candidates. The Chief Administrative Officer, Nelson Kirenda, says that they have resolved to relieve Ssekimuli of his duties for mismanaging the examination registration fees …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has allowed medical and health training institutions to resume normal studies. This comes a week after the government instructed the Ministries of Education and Health and the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) officials to meet and discuss the safe reopening of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts have said that the government’s plan to re-open schools after vaccinating learners aged 12 years and above is not feasible. Last week, the government said that it was considering the vaccination of learners aged above 12, as one of the means to ensure safety …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party has welcomed President Museveni’s decision to partially lift the lockdown imposed on the country on June 18, but called on the President to reopen places of worship and schools. While lifting the lockdown, President Museveni said places of worship …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government is considering the vaccination of learners aged between 12 and 18, as one of the means to ensure safety and sustainable resumption of teaching and learning activities. The idea, according to Janet Kataha Museveni, the Minister in charge of Education and Sports, …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local leaders and educationists in Northern Uganda have called on government to vaccinate all teachers before institutions of learning are re-opened. In a meeting with the Parliamentary Taskforce committee on Covid-19, Lira district leaders said there were a lot of infections in schools which had …

Johannesburg, South Africa | Xinhua | South Africa is ready to reopen schools on July 26 as COVID-19 figures are reducing and measures have been put in place to reduce transmission, said the Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga on Saturday, while briefing the media in Pretoria about the country’s …