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Join Our Facebook Page 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 […]
Join Our Facebook Page 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 […]
Join Our Facebook Page 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 […]
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 […]
If you’re reading this article, I assume you already have a website, or you are planning to have one in the near future. Whether you are doing this for profit or as a service to your country, there’s one thing that you are looking for, and that is publicity. You need the people to know […]
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 […]
The Makerere University academic registrar, Alfred Namoah Masikye shocked the entire fraternity with an abrupt revelation that the first-year admissions for the 2020/2021 Bachelor of Dental Surgery had been suspended. In his letter, Masikye added that the decision was a result of the directive issued by the East African Medical and Dental Council that required […]
With a total population of over 15 million students in Uganda, the President issued a directive in March to suspend all educational activities in schools, due to the threatening spread of the coronavirus pandemic all over the continent. As a result, all students that believed in the possibility of schools resuming this year embraced the […]
A total of 129 students who were stuck in Sudan due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic have finally been evacuated. The group of lucky returnees aboard a Kenya Airways flight landed at Moi International Airport on Saturday evening and immediately went under a mandatory health check before they proceeded to the Kenya School […]
UGANDA: The Higher Education Students Financing Board (HESFB) has introduced a new actionable plan to help girls and special needs students to pursue higher education by providing them with government loans. According to the Executive Director of HESFB, Mr. Wanyama, the board has introduced an additional five points to the female students to enable them […]
The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has broken the silence about the circulating documents on social media titled ‘TSC list of school administrators’. The commission says the list is fake. The circulating document contains the real names of teachers employed by TSC. It also has individual Teachers Service Commission Registration numbers, name of the school, County, […]