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
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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
Read MoreKalungu 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,
Read MoreEducation Minister Issues Guidelines On Timeline For Teachers To Attain Degree Qualification
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
Read MoreUgandan Student Shares Moving Testimony On Cyberbullying at UN Human Rights Council
Santa Rose Mary Addressing the Human Rights Council. (Snapshot from UN News Website) Santa Rose Mary, a Ugandan student delivered a moving testimony of her harrowing experience with cyberbullying during a panel discussion at the UN Human Rights Council on the vice. The fifteen-year-old Child Rights Advocate and a valued
Read MoreJustice Musa Ssekaana made the decision. The High Court has upheld the decision of schools to indefinitely suspend students found in possession of drugs that may endanger public safety, health, and morality. According to Civil Division High Court Judge Musa Ssekaana, schools have a broader duty to protect the welfare
Read MoreFrancis Owino (pictured), the Director of St. Mary's Secondary School in Mbale district is in trouble for allegedly providing students with fabricated Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) and Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) results. He was apprehended on Friday following a tip-off from a concerned parent who claimed Owino had
Read MoreTeacher Who Reported Overpayment Mysteriously Vanishes From Payroll, Goes Months Without Salary
Taddeo Mulumba, a tutor at the Jinja-based Ophthalmic College of Health Services Taddeo Mulumba, a tutor at the Jinja-based Ophthalmic College of Health Services has found himself entangled in a perplexing salary predicament, going for months without pay after reporting an anomaly in his accounts. Mulumba recounts that his payment
Read MoreMakerere’s Saudah Namyalo Shares Her Journey On Becoming Second Female Muslim Professor In Uganda
Associate Professor Saudah Namyalo Birabwa during an interview in her office at Makerere University. Dr. Saudah Namyalo Birabwa has broken through the proverbial glass ceiling to become the second Muslim female Associate Professor in Uganda. With her promotion last month, Professor Namyalo, who is the Dean of the School of
Read MoreKiryasaaka Muslim Secondary in Kibinge, Bukomansimbi district is struggling to conduct computer-based studies over the lack of electricity. The government supplied 40 computer sets to the school in 2021, to support the implementation of the new secondary school curriculum which made computer studies compulsory for students in the ordinary secondary
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