Education

Evicted Businesses at Makerere Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Barnabas Nawangwe has pardoned three students who were suspended for protesting the eviction of small businesses at the university. In 2022, Makerere University Council ordered all businesses to vacate campus premises. Some of the businesses included photocopy and stationery shops, food stalls,

Wobulenzi Public Primary School in Luweero district is at risk of sale because of failure to service a loan that was marred by irregularities, the LC V chairperson, Erastus Kibirango has revealed. Two weeks ago, Equity Bank announced the takeover of the Public Primary school over a debt. In 2019,

A signpost of Pherry Junior School located at Kitete in Mukono Central Division Sylvia Okite, the director and head teacher of Pherry Junior School in Mukono Municipality is under the spotlight for allegedly detaining eight Primary Seven leavers due to unpaid school fees. The director ordered the detention of the

Professor Barnabas Nawangwe Tension is mounting at Makerere University as staff associations challenge the implementation of the Biometric Access System on campus, defying directives from the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Barnabas Nawangwe. Staff, through their associations– Makerere University Academic Association-Muasa, Makerere University Administrative Staff Association-Muasa, and National Union of Education Institutions-Nuei, expressed

Census on schools is good for planning purposes Parliament issued a three-month ultimatum to the Ministry of Education and Sports, to recover Shs3.9Bn given to Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) meant for conducting a census for the education sector. This is after the Bureau failed to deliver the work within the

The 12 students that reached the finals in a group photo with UBA officials and Ismael Mulindwa (in suit-front row), the Director Basic and Secondary Education at the Ministry of Education The Ministry of Education and Sports has applauded United Bank for Africa Uganda (UBAU) for supporting the country’s education sector

Soroti Secondary School main gate. A student of Soroti Secondary School has dropped out of the ongoing Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) examinations after developing mental complications. The affected student is among 750 students registered for the UCE examination at Soroti Secondary School this year. He registered and attended lessons

Kalungu district authorities are under fire to explain the circumstances under, which a ghost teacher has been picking salary for the past sixteen years. The Public Accounts Committee on Local Governments in Parliament has tasked Prosy Nalumansi, the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) to provide a detailed report on this irregularity,

Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataha Museveni, releasing the results of the last cohort of Grade II Teachers' Examinations. Janet Kataha Museveni, the Minister of Education and Sports, has issued fresh guidance regarding the timeline initially established for educators to attain a minimum bachelor's degree qualification. In 2019, the