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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education is seeking for secondary schools to attach students who had opted to join Primary Teachers Colleges-PTC. Every year, the 46 PTCs have been admitting at least 9,200 students with each college accommodating a maximum of 200 students in a given academic …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bugema and Kampala University will not allow non-vaccinated students to attend lecturers, the administrators have revealed. While lifting the second lockdown, President Yoweri Museveni allowed higher institutions of learning to reopen on 1st November 2021. He called upon lecturers as well as non-teaching staff to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Colleges at Makerere University have clarified the selected modes of online assessment of students ahead of the examinations scheduled to start on September 13 and run to September 30, 2021. On Tuesday this week, the Makerere University Academic Registrar, Alfred Masikye Namoah informed students that …

Kigali, Rwanda | Xinhua | Students being treated for COVID-19 under home-based care in Rwanda are to sit their national examinations under strict health protocols, the country’s education ministry said. All examination centers will set up a separate examination room, which will be disinfected every day, for these students, the ministry …

Covid-19 testing centres register increase in infections in learners Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The situation at Makerere Hospital is being played out across the country after students returned abruptly for holidays when the second wave of COVID-19 hit the country. Dr Josephat Byamugisha, Executive Director Makerere hospital -one …

  Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parents in Kitgum district have been asked to isolate their children who returned from school pending a mass Covid-19 testing exercise. The caution from medical workers and leaders comes just a day after 47 students out of 280 who were subjected to the RDT …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 1,500 students have so far been transported to their homes after they were stranded in the taxi and bus parks in Kampala. Since Tuesday, the government has been providing transport to clear the numbers of students stranded in Kampala to get back to their upcountry …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than thirty students of Makerere University are stranded in hostels following the closure of education institutions. On Sunday, President Museveni announced fresh restrictions as part of measures to control the COVID-19 transmissions in the country in face of the second wave of the pandemic. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has lifted the curfew to enable buses and taxi to travel late and ferry stranded students from Kampala. Additional transport means are now also being considered, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health Diana Atwine has announced. Hundreds of people are still stuck in various …

Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several students from schools in Mukono district are stranded due to lack of transport following the abrupt closure of schools to contain the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our reporter found Clair Nansimbe one of the students at Paul Mukasa Secondary school stuck …