Parliament has approved a recommendation by the parliamentary education committee to halt the salary increment of science teacher stating that its discriminatory against arts teachers. The parliamentary committee on education and sports chaired by Connie Nakayenze Galiwanango recommended that the salary increment of the Science teachers in the financial year 2018/19 be put on halt. […]
Parliament has approved the scrapping of the pre-entry examinations for the students joining the Law Development Centre. The decision was taken following a report from the Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs based on ministerial policy statements that were submitted by different sectors to the committee including Law Development Center. The committee report noted that […]
African youths have asked governments to take serious action on the increasing teenage pregnancies and HIV/AIDs infection rates among young people. This was during the ongoing 4th Commonwealth Youth Parliament taking place in Kampala, Uganda where the young leaders blamed the increasing teenage pregnancies and HIV/AIDs infection rates among young people on poverty, lack of government […]
The Higher Education Students Financing Board is seeking for eight billion shillings to finance over 1,900 students in both university and tertiary institutions. The Executive Director of the board, Michael Wanyama, while appearing before the education committee to defend their budget noted that in the next financial year they planned on admitting 3,000 students to […]
Ugandan Students have performed best in Physics chemistry and biology in the just released Cambridge examination following the November exam series A total of 80 Ugandan Cambridge candidates performed excellently at the overal rate of 96% . Following the results the Government has been advised to adopt an all-inclusive Cambridge education curriculum so as to catch […]
Makerere university will hold the 68th Graduation ceremony from 16th-19th January 2018 at the university main campus. The ceremony will be held at the Freedom Square presided over by Prof. Ezra Suruma the Chancellor of Uganda’s oldest university insititution Below are the scheduled dates for different colleges on which graduands will be conferred degrees in different academic […]
The Mawogola south MP in sembabule district Joseph Ssekabito Kitayimbwa and Budadiri’s East Vincent Wobwoya have asked the district public service commissions to conduct serious vetting of teachers before they are posted in schools to minimize bad practices spread to children The MPs are concerned about the poor screening of teachers that has resulted into defilement […]
Students together with staff of Kampala International University (KIU) have paid tribute to their six colleagues who died after the taxi they were travelling in rammed into a lorry on Saturday evening. The students belonging to the KIU Banyarwanda Students Association (BASA) were travelling in a passenger commuter taxi registration number UAZ 179T which rammed […]