National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) - Uganda Multimedia News & Information https://www.weinformers.com Politics, Health, Sceince, Business, Agriculture, Culture, Tourism, Women, Men, Oil, Sports Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:16:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Government to introduce ethics subject to curb moral degeneration https://www.weinformers.com/2018/10/31/government-to-introduce-ethics-subject-to-curb-moral-degeneration/ https://www.weinformers.com/2018/10/31/government-to-introduce-ethics-subject-to-curb-moral-degeneration/#respond Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:16:11 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=54110 The Ugandan Government has embarked on an initiative to curb the moral decay among her citizens through ethical studies. According to the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), an ethics subject will be taught on a national level and an individual value assessment tool shall be developed. NCDC also adds that two certificate; academic and moral […]

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NCDC also adds that two certificate; academic and moral values shall be  issued at each academic level.

The new development was announced by the NCDC deputy director, Ms Bernadette Karuhanga during a dialogue between the Office of the Inspector General of Government and Education ministry officials in Kampala last Friday.

“We are also mindful of the loss of values. If we can get funding to procure materials, we should be ready to roll it out. We are coming up with guidelines for assessing subjects that are currently not assessed by Uneb (Uganda National Examinations Board) and are looking at assessing values,” Ms Karuhanga said.

Hon. Janet Museveni, the Minister of Education, however challenged teachers who will teach the discipline to uphold moral values as well and be exemplary to their students.

“Teaching ethics and integrity as a lesson in class is not an easy thing because you must practice ethics and integrity to know how to pass it on to a child,” Ms Museveni said.

According to Ms Pauline Nansamba,the officer in the IGG’s Directorate of Legal Affairs, 20 per cent of corruption cases registered in 2018 were from the education sector.

“Although we put ethical value and anti-corruption studies on the curriculum, teachers will only put emphasis on the examinable subjects so that their students can pass highly. I recommend that a student is given two reports, one on academics and the other on ethical performance,” State Minister for Ethics and Integrity, Fr Simon Lokodo.

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The Chinese government has agreed to a proposal submitted by the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Sports seeking for 30.8 billion shillings to enable introduction of Chinese language in Uganda’s education syllabus. This language, according to the plan, is supposed to be taught in all secondary schools in the country.

This development is contained in a letter addressed to President Museveni in which the Ministry, headed by the Minister of Education Jessica Alupo, wrote to the president briefing him on various engagements the Ministry has had with Chinese and Korean governments. The letter dated June 10/2015 signed by Alupo, indicates that on 26/5/2015, the Minister travelled to China with a team of Ugandan technocrats where they met with the management of Confucius Institute [China].

The Alupo-led delegation presented a draft proposal seeking for a grant of 30.8 billion shillings from the Chinese government to facilitate the introduction of the Chinese language into the country’s education system at secondary level. The same minister asked for support to the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) and  China agreed to all these requests, adding that the same country gave Uganda five (5) scholarships of a core team of people to learn the Chinese language in China who upon return, will act as master trainers.

The same China offered Uganda more in-service teachers of Chinese language at Makerere University Confucius institute in addition to offering Uganda a team of Chinese teachers to kick start the teaching of Chinese in Ugandan schools as a pilot, in addition to donating instructional materials in teaching and learning Chinese and also opening up regional  Institutes in Uganda.

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