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Join Our Telegram Group In this post, we will try to explain why every teacher should at least be part of a SACCO. Sacco’s are Savings and Credit Cooperatives in full, and you can simply understand them as the kind of organizations that encourage savings and provide loans to their members, depending on; Their savings Their […]
Join Our Telegram Group The sudden announcement of closure by Gems Cambridge International School Kampala, Uganda has shocked all its teachers and exerted pressure on parents to find alternative schools for their children. Kenya Teachers and parents with students in the Kenyan Campus are expected to face the same condition. The school administration announced last […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Ugandan government has refrained all schools from hiking school fees when learning activities resume for candidates. After the national taskforce and the President agreed upon September 20 as the resumption date for finalists, the Ministry of Education has issued a number of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in addition to the […]
Uganda National Teachers Association (Unatu) has complained of the inadequate capitation grant given to them by the government and has asked the government to meet the costs of the Standard operating procedures (SOPs). Uganda Government Clears Schools and Universities to Reopen on 20th September The government has cleared schools to reopen for candidate classes and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the current president of Uganda has unleashed a new plan for all students to access education at home. In his presidential address on Monday 22nd June, the president updated the country on the status of Covid–19 and the different measures that will hopefully tame the spread of the pandemic, including what […]
Uganda’s Ministry of Education and Sports looks forward to digitalizing all centres of vocational excellence under the Uganda Skills Development Project–USDP as one of the means to ensure online learning during and post the Covid-19 era. According to the Ministry of Education, the centres of vocational excellence includes Bukalasa agricultural College, Uganda Technical college- Elgon, […]