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Join Our Telegram Group Last week Friday, July 24, Kenyan Kiswahili and history teacher, Abdikadir Ismail was selected in a group of 11 Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize finalists from around the world in launching ‘Class of Covid-19’. The group was selected to investigate the impact of the coronavirus crisis on schoolchildren and young people […]
Join Our Telegram Group The coronavirus outbreak has suffocated businesses that were already struggling, with entrepreneurs now rethinking their strategies to reinvest in other ventures. Some of the hardest-hit are proprietors of private schools who have outstanding loans and already gave their buildings to banks as collateral security, according to the Federation for Non-State Education […]
Join Our Telegram Group Jimmy Mukiibi, aged 13 is a primary school pupil in Mbale town where he was found with his father at his workshop. This workshop was started by Jimmy’s grandfather, whose names he inherited in 1973. Unfortunately, he passed on 20 years ago, so he didn’t get to see his grandson. He […]
International EdTech company, Crimson Education, has launched a private online high school – the Crimson Global Academy (CGA) – in South Africa, with a tuition fee of only Ksh. 168,000 (R26,000) per subject. The CGA will offer international qualifications including the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) and A-Levels, the group said. Students to […]
In Capetown, teachers and parents have rallied behind Wesley Neumann, the principal of Healthfiled High School, following an appeal written to President Cyril Ramaphosa and his cabinet to shut down schools again until it is safe to return. Neumann wrote in one of the letters on behalf of a group of principals, asking the government […]
It is approaching five months ever since the government of Uganda issued a temporary but indefinite closure on all institutions of learning in order to contain the spread of the Coronavirus. With time, however, different countries have given hope to school administrators, as they have promised to reopen schools soon, following a particular set of […]
MPs on the National Economy Committee have demanded the cancellation of the 2020 academic year. More than 15 million students were sent home, as a preventive measure against Covid-19. Now, the MPs have advised the government to declare 2020 a dead year as opening amid the burden of following the Standard Operation procedures would not […]
The government through Microfinance support Centre has injected 5 billion Uganda shillings into the Uganda Teachers’ Cooperative Savings and Credit Union as part and parcel of its commitment to improving their welfare, especially during this pandemic. The Uganda Teachers Cooperative Savings and credit union is an umbrella to several teachers saving groups across the country. […]
Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) has announced general salary cuts of up to 90% for its staff members after they had reviewed their terms of employment amidst the Covid-19 lockdown. Hussein Lukyamuzi, the university secretary says the institution is unable to pay salaries to staff members as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown whose effects […]
A stunning 42% drop out rate of children before the completion of primary school was reported by UNESCO in 2012. Since then, things are not any better, right from the elementary schools to universities and colleges. However, it is highly anticipated that the effects of the Covid-19 outbreak will skyrocket the dropout rates a great […]
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Amid the looming uncertainty of whether education institutions will open or not, some commercial banks have already threatened to take on the property that school owners mortgaged as collateral security for loans. Mr. Patrick Kaboyo, the secretary for Federation of Non–state Education Institutions (FENEI) said the majority received loans from commercial banks in order to […]