Janet Museveni (Right), the Minister of Education and Sports receiving PLE results Janet Museveni, the Minister of Education and Sports, has said that the government is going to scrap automatic promotion policy with the aim of reducing the number of ungraded candidates in final national examinations. Mrs Museveni made these remarks on
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Professor Lawrence Muganga together with members of the commission The call to ban boarding or residential schools is gaining momentum at the Amanya Mushega-led education policy review commission, as an increasing number of individuals and educationists advocate for it to become a prominent reform in the education sector. Since the
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Officials from dfcu bank and Buganda Kingdom in a group photo after the press briefing dfcu Bank and Ekibiina Ky'olulimi Oluganda (EKO), a Buganda Kingdom body that promotes Luganda as a language, have partnered to bring education closer to the stakeholders. The two parties announced the partnership at a media briefing held on
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The State Minister for Higher Education Dr. John Chrysostom Muyingo has cautioned schools against opening the school term before the official date. According to the official school calendar from the Ministry of Education and Sports, the school term will commence on 5th February. Muyingo says that he has already received
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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,
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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,
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Makerere VC Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe (Left) & dfcu bank CEO, Charles Mudiwa Makerere University, in collaboration with dfcu Bank and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, hosted the second memorial lecture to honour the Late Owekitibwa Martin Luther Nsibiriwa, a celebrated patron and forefather of Makerere University. The annual event is held to
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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
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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
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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
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