President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni with Uganda Cranes Captain Denis Onyango and Head coach Sebastien Desabre

In a jolly mood, the President discussed football matters with the contingent before he announced his offer of a chartered flight to fly the Cranes to Maseru for the reverse fixture against Lesotho to be played on Tuesday 16^th October, 2018.

President Museveni also offered the Uganda Cranes contingent to State House a financial boost of UGX 200M (Two Hundred Million Shillings).

President Museveni congratulated the team for posting results that have kept the Cranes on top of the group in the campaign but urged them to work harder against Lesotho on Saturday.

“I have been following you of recent and I thank you for the performance but we need to work harder for better results. I have offered you a chartered plane to Lesotho and UGX 200M to help you get good results” said President Museveni

Speaking on behalf of the players, team captain Denis Onyango appreciated the President and the First Lady Janet Museveni (Minister of Education and Sports) for the recent support towards the Cranes and football.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in a deep discussion with the Uganda Cranes and FUFA Contingent to State House on Tuesday in Entebbe

“The support from the President is a sign that he follows and loves sports. Football has been picking good results partly because of such support from the fountain of honour and office of Education and Sports. This offer will help the team fly in time to Maseru for the game” said Justus Mugisha.

The Uganda Cranes Technical team led by head coach Sebastien Desabre was also in attendance.

The delegation to State House was led by FUFA 1st Vice President Justus Mugisha, accompanied by 2^nd Vice President Darius Mugoye, FUFA CEO Edgar Watson and the FUFA Finance Director Decolas Kiiza.

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Janet Museveni, Minister of Education

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 registration for reasons of not having met the minimum entry requirements.

She argued that although issues were earlier raised over this matter, its important to note that the life and health of the people demands careful training, skilling and health practices.

Janet Museveni told parliament that some private health training institutions do not comply with the set minimum entry requirement for training which is a reason the Uganda Nurses and Midwife Council in their execution of its mandate of regulation and ensure quality assurance to base on for  its clearance of graduates from such institutions    .

Medical Labaratory Training School one of the private health institutes in Uganda

She disclosed that the  ministry of education and sports are in discussions with the Health of Ministry together with the Uganda Nurses and Midwife Council in order those nurses that were denied registration for reasons of not having met the minimum entry requirements are given a period of six months and  mandatory one year internship.

Mrs Museveni said that those private health training institutions have agreed to meet a cost within six months and also  supervision of the Uganda Nurses and Midwife Council .

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Students gathered in the school compound before violence broke out

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 a crowd that had gathered at the main block of the school.

Police say they are investigating the incident that paralyzed studying at one of the oldest schools in the country.

However, some teachers who spoke on condition of anonymity have accused Ms Nsubuga of instructing teachers loyal to her to mobilise students to protest against her transfer.

“Yesterday she came into the staff room just when we were having our lunch and accused teachers for being behind her woes,” said a teacher quoting from what headmistress had said.

The source says the school has now been divided between teachers and students who are loyal to the headmistress pitying those against her administrative style.

The teachers have also accused Nsubuga of intimidating them accusing them of making allegations about her to the Ministry of Education and Sports over the recent illegal sell of school properties including land.

“I have experienced a lot of hatred from you people and I wonder what I did to you. I am going but in case anyone celebrates my departure, they will feel my weigh,” Nsubuga is quoted to have further said, adding, “I hope you are aware that Iddi Amin was at the border of Uganda but still commanded her troops. I still in charge and those you who are defiant, I will just instruct the Ministry to send some of you away like they did in Makerere College”.

The school has been a center of contention in the past year especially over land related issues where management has previously been accused of selling school properties including land to a local bus company.

The teachers further want an independent investigation to be carried out on the school.

Nsubuga, however, in an earlier statement denied allegations of selling school land saying a decision to lease part of the school land was reached by the board which gave part of the land to Volcano Ltd a company that wanted to establish a bus terminal.

She also stated that the school needed funds to finance other projects such as fencing so as to improve on security.

Late last year, the Observer Newspaper reported of how Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago,had been sucked into the land controversy following a petition by Moses Kataabu, the lord councilor of Kampala Central II to the Education Minister, Janet Museveni, to stop the sale/lease of Old Kampala Secondary School land at Sh10bn.

A school block at Old Kampala SS

Kataabu in his letter had accused Lukwago of witnessing the transaction for the school to be leased through a firm that he owns i.e Lukwago & Co. Advocates.

However, Lukwago denied the involvement but instead called for the reversal of the deal who his partner had been part of.

Nsubuga took over the management of the school from Mr. Emmanuel Mukasa in 2015.

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Janet Museveni, Minister of Education

The Minister for Education, Janet Museveni, has pledged to strengthen monitoring in Primary Teachers’ Colleges so that they can meet the required standards.

She made the remarks on Monday at the release of the 2016 grade III certificate exam results where 10,131 out of 16,273 candidates who registered passed the Grade III exams.

The performance was better in all subjects including Maths and English that were previously performed poorly during the 2015 season.

Apart from Math with pass rate of 76%, the candidates managed to pass the rest of the 12 subjects’ local language, social studies, agriculture, and integrated science with a pass mark of over 99%.

Best performing Primary Teacher Colleges were Bundibugyo, Rakai, Bushenyi, Ndegeya (Masaka), Canon Apollo (Fort Portal) with an over-all pass of over 85%.

Meanwhile, the worst performing colleges were all private and these included; Busoga University PTC, St. Baptist Ggaba, Namutamba with below 40% overall pass rate.

The released results also indicated that a total of 5, 600 candidates failed the exams.

Museveni who is also the first lady of Uganda has urged stake holders to ensure that all PTCs including private colleges meet the minimum standards if they are to realize an improvement in performance.

The Secretary General of Uganda National Teachers Union, James Tweheyo, together with he  chairperson of PTC Principals, Beatrice Byakutaga and Dr. Godfrey Bakaira the head of teacher training section at Kyambogo University took time to explain reasons for the poor performance of  private colleges in the country.

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Janet Museveni the minister of education

The minister for education and sports, Janet Museveni, also the First Lady has blamed budget cuts to the ministry for the continued low delivery of quality education in the country.

She indicated that in last four financial years her ministry has suffered budget cuts from 15% to 11%.

The First Lady disclosed this last week while appearing before the parliamentary education committee presided over by Mbale district woman member of parliament, Connie Nayenze Galiwango .

She told the committee that budget cuts leave a critical budget gap of 465 billion shillings for unfunded priorities, which affects ministerial plans for the education and sports sector.

Mrs Museveni said that UPE and USE may not improve if some sub counties are still lacking government schools to enroll this government programme.

Children in a UPE school

However, some members of the committee who included: Busia Municipality MP, Godfrey Macho and the Mbale Municipality MP, Jack Wamayi Wamanga together with the Makindye West MP, Allan Sewanyana protested the way the chairperson of this committee, Connie Galiwango protected Mrs. Museveni saying she was avoiding the tough questions posed to her in relation to the education sector which she heads, whereas Galiwango kept preventing her from giving sufficient explanations.

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The non-teaching staff at all Public Universities who have been on strike over delays in salaries, salary increments and pending payment of their arrears which has paralyzed business at all public universities for the past few days, will now resume work by tomorrow.

The Universities which should have commenced work two weeks back had until yesterday refused to re-open when they met President Museveni and the education minister, Janet Museveni, it was agreed that they resume duty as their grievances are being worked on.
In their general assembly held today (Wednesday August 17) at Makerere University, they unanimously agreed to suspend the strike and get back to their respective posts tomorrow so that business can get back to normal.

The workers however, warned that if the three months elapse with no positive answer, then a massive strike will be announced across all public universities.

Some of the non-teaching staff at a meeting at Makerere University main hall.

The Chairperson of non-teaching staff, Jackson Betihama, in all the Public Universities, who addressed members, thanked members for their resilience and asked them not to disappoint the negotiating team but get back to work and serve the nation without fear.

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Pupils of Bristish School Kampala move around their compound.The Education ministry says some international schools have been operating without licenses and have poor structures with no teaching curriculum approved by the ministry of education.

Among the schools are some that were operating under Bridge International Academy in Uganda from Nursery to Primary level.

Their closure comes after the Worker’s MP, Margaret Rwabushaija, raised the matter to Parliament recently which prompted the ministry of education to investigate.

It is alleged the schools never went through the criteria of registering and getting licensed although they have been operating since 2013.

Janet  Museveni,the minister of education  reported to parliament that  schools with bad infrastructure had earlier been been given an interim period on which to operate in the temporary structures but that the period expired without the administrators upgrading to safe guard the lives of pupils.

She said such bad school structures could not promote good hygiene among children and promote the required teacher student’s interactions.

Janet therefore directed that such schools  closed at the end of this second term and their children transferred to other UPE schools around those closed.

She added that these schools will only be reopened after they have satisfied the ministry of education requirements.

Members of Parliament who included the woman MP for Kumi Municipality, Monica Amoding ,Mitima district Woman MP, Jovah Kamateka, said that schools especially ones operate in poor environmental conditions because of lack of inspection .

The speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga asked Janet Museveni to also ensure that the land of public schools is protected from land grabbers.

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The committee is currently investigating the mismanagement of the PRDP funds in the office of the prime minister.

This comes after members of this committee disagreed on whether or not she should appear.

The first lady, who was scheduled to appear before the committee today, has written to the MPs requesting them to reschedule the meeting for another date after February 15th because she has been on leave.

The committee chairperson Paul Mwiru says that they were also meant to meet with the prime but failed after receiving communication from his office that he was out of the country.

He says that the committee has now agreed reschedule their meetings with the two officials.

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The Minister and the wife to the president of Rwanda Mrs. Jeanette Kagame where addressing the students of St. Mary’s Namagunga girls school in Mukono district.

Mrs. Museveni said that the current HIV/AIDS infection rate that stand at 6.5 % need to be dealt with urgently. She noted that Uganda’s effort in the early 90’s had registered tremendous success which had brought the infection rate from 30-6%.
Mrs. Museveni advised the youth to practice abstinence until marriage and avoid misleading messages that endanger their lives. Mrs. Jeanette Kagame gave tips to the students on how to stay focused on studies and live up to their dreams
Mrs. Kagame is in Uganda on a private visit.

The two first ladies toured the school and had time to interact with the students and the schools administration.

Mean while Jeanette further called the African people to embrace the African culture and preserve it’s because it unites us together as African.

She said this while addressing the people of Biharwe Mbarara District who welcomed her at Igongo Cultural Centre where she was with her host, Mrs. Janet Museveni.

By Mugisa Isaac Mathias

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