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Teachers are abandoning the profession completely in favour of personal business Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Some private schools around Kampala and Wakiso are operating while understaffed, while others have resorted to hiring part time teachers. The unstable situation in schools has resulted from some private teachers abandoning the profession to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education is worried as over 99% of all the teachers registered across the country to receive the Covid-19 vaccine are still hesitant to receive the AstraZeneca jabs giving excuses like long distances to the vaccination centres. As different frontline workers who were identified …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The ministry of health has been forced to continuously revise the COVID-19 vaccination priority groups due to the low uptake of the vaccine. According to health ministry officials, they have been forced to change the original plan of vaccination to increase uptake of the vaccine. Originally, …

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Teachers in Arapai Sub County in Soroti District want the Government to establish COVID-19 vaccination points at Health Centre III nearer to them. This comes after the Soroti District COVID-19 task force set up five vaccination points in the district and city. They include Soroti Regional Referral …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in Health and Education ministries are seemingly in support of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination of teachers and other frontline workers. While the government had initially said that COVID-19 vaccination is not compulsory and subject to consent since the vaccines are new and have never been used …

Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Amuru District Local Government has decided to use an iron hand to get all the frontline workers vaccinated against Covid-19. Most of them are reluctant to the jab.  So although being vaccinated in voluntary both in Uganda and the rest of the world, in Amuru district …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Several schools and teachers are still skeptical about the implementation of the new lower secondary curriculum as senior one students return to school after an unprecedented full-year holiday.    The competency-based curriculum was rolled out last year amidst protests from several stakeholders and policymakers. At …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports will offer free in-service programmes to enable teachers of lower qualifications to upgrade to the required degree level. The new National Teacher Policy now requires that all teachers, right from nursery, must have at least a bachelor’s degree as …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ogom Seed Secondary School teachers have petitioned school authorities in Pader district, demanding a refund of sh7.7 million which they claim was illegally extorted from all of them before they were allowed to sit recruitment interviews. They say the reported extortion happened February and …

    Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDETN | The Ministry of Education and Sports is proposing that teacher trainees should carry out school practice for one a full year as one of the key ingredients to improve the quality of the teachers produced from teacher training institutions. The suggestion is …