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The ministry of education has demanded that schools make provisional emergency sanitary towels to girls during school time. This was made by the Research and Advocacy officer at Gender Unit in the Ministry of Education and Sports, Ms. Rosette Nanyanzi . She said that schools should give emergency pads to girls as parents also take up this role. She said […]
Parliament has paid tribute to the late MP for Ruhaama county William Beijukye amidst boycott from opposition members of parliament during a special sitting. The sitting that was chaired by the deputy speaker Jacob Oulanyah saw the Leader of Opposition, Winfred Kiiza, Chief Opposition whip, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, and other chief whips of the opposition […]
Government has given a period of six months to private health training institutions to comply with the set minimum entry requirements for training health students. This was revealed by the Minister for Education and Sports, Janet Museveni, while responding to MP’s concerns on the floor of parliament over claims that nurses were denied professional entry […]
Old Kampala Senior Secondary School has been closed by Police over a student’s strike that turned violent. Students are protesting against the transfer of their headmistress, Ms Aziida Nsubuga Ntegane, by the Ministry of Education and Sports. Reports indicated that some students were injured in the process when police fired in the air to disperse […]
Re-known American Gospel Singer, Don Moen, has come out to refute claims that he had died of stomach pains by tweeting about him and his family in a presumed countryside. News of his purported death had on Wednesday been awash on social media before Moen finally debunked it with a photo with his family members. […]
Human rights activists under their umbrella body National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders in Uganda (NCHRD-U) have urged government to respect Dr Stella Nyanzi’s right to be presumed of sound mind, describing attempts by authorities to examine her mental state as a violation of her rights. The organisations also demand government to investigate the circumstances […]
Makerere University Student leaders this week petitioned Parliament to pressurize government into re-opening the institution which they said has among other things affected learning and businesses of the communities around the University. Makerere guild information minister, Abbas Kizito, says three things are demanded in their petition which they say should comprise a commission of inquiry […]
The non-teaching staff at Makerere University and other Public Universities have finally agreed to end their week-long strike for the next three month as they await President Museveni’s pledge that he made with them yesterday (Tuesday August 16) in a meeting at state house Entebbe. The non-teaching staff at all Public Universities who have been […]
Government anticipates that non-teaching staff at the public universities will call off their strike and return to work by Thursday this week. Janet Kataha Museveni, the minister of education and sports, while addressing parliament on Tuesday August 09, 2016 said that one of the demands the of non-teaching staff was for government not to use part […]
Government has so far closed a total of 62 international schools countrywide that it says have illegally been operating in Uganda with no license, no proper structures or a teaching curriculum approved by the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) Among the schools are some that were operating under Bridge International Academy in Uganda from […]