Pupils in class The Ministry of Education and Sports has made tentative adjustments in the school calendar to enable learners to complete their respective syllabi before being promoted to the next classes. The adjustment came days after the government announced a 42-day closure of schools, to control COVID-19 infections in
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Makerere University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe Makerere University administrators have insisted on holding examinations for final year students this morning despite the presidential directive suspending school activities. During a broadcast address on Sunday evening, the president directed the closure of all educational institutions for 42-days effective today June 7, 2021,
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Ministry of Education, Permanent Secretary Alex Kakooza The Ministry of Education and Sports has asked institutions of learning to delay the reopening of schools and breaking off of learners until further notice.Under the calendar by the Ministry of Education and Sports on the staggered reopening of classes, P1, P2 and
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More than 550,000 people have had the vaccine/Getty Images The senior Presidential advisor on epidemics, Dr Monica Munesero, has advised parents not to take their children to school before the presidential address on June 06, 2021. Semi candidates are expected to report for their special term on July 07, 2021,
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Primary Seven Candidates at St Joseph's Primary School/URN Photo Several parents are crying foul as school operators take advantage of the current disorganized education calendar to over-charge them in school fees and scholastic requirements. While reopening schools after a long unprecedented holiday of nine months as a result of
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Jothan Yamureebire Burobuto For nine years, Jothan Yamureebire Burobuto has been at Makerere University pursuing a Bachelors Degree, which would ideally take him four years to complete. He is now one of the students who graduated during the concluded 71st graduation ceremony that ended on Friday. The 27-year-old student enrolled
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Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataha Museveni The Ministry of Education and Sports committed to deliver a number of pledges in the 2016-2021 manifesto. For instance, the ministry pledged salary enhancement for primary school teachers, build teachers houses, build schools per parish, provide vocational/technical education per constituency, strengthen monitoring
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Analysts of the National Schools Championship Stanbic Bank Uganda has announced the regional finalists of the National Schools Championship (NSC) 2021. Following a rigorous screening process in which a panel of business analysts assessed a total of 532 business idea profiles, 28 finalists were selected, comprising 20 schools, 4 NSC
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17-year-old Victory Yinka-Banjo One Nigerian teenager must feel like she has the world at her feet after receiving 19 full-ride scholarship offers from universities across the United States and Canada. Victory Yinka-Banjo, a 17-year-old high school graduate, was offered more than $5 million dollars' (UShs17.9bn) worth of scholarship money for
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Jennifer Kalule-Mulumba, the UNEB spokesperson. The Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) might fail to mark 2020 national examinations in the required time as some examiners have failed to turn up at the marking centres. This year, the examinations board was expecting 2,000 examiners at the designated 40 centres to mark
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