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MPs task Janet on unfunded priorities
Last week, Education minister Janet Museveni appeared in parliament to defend her ministry's budget. As JOSEPHINE NAMULOKI reports, legislators on the parliamentary committee on education tasked the...
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Gulu’s special-needs children miss school
Loneliness descends on Mercy Alimo, a deaf mute child in Pece division, Gulu municipality. Alimo is five years old, and would be attending kindergarten just like any regular child. Each morning, her...
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Students loan scheme in balance over Shs 5 billion budget gap
Government’s delay to release Shs 5.6 billion to fund the next batch of students to access the students loan scheme could leave the programme in the balance. According to officials from the Higher...
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Government to register learners for national IDs
Starting May 29, 2017, the education ministry and the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) will undertake a registration exercise of learners in all primary, post-primary,...
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School owners protest lack of govt support
Of late, there have been complaints from both government and private actors on the challenges of running a private school under the Universal Secondary Education programme. The private actors who own...
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Prison education: where teachers live like kings behind bars
Every morning, learners around the country gather at their respective schools to study. They follow the same syllabus as the rest of the country, but in the prison formal education system, things are a...
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Education in prison: A glass half full
Two decades since its inception, prison education is still a work in progress. In this last of the four-part series, PRISCA BAIKE unveils the challenges facing the system and where improvements can be...
View ArticleMilestones Junior School showcases reading skills
Milestones Junior School staged a reading expo for parents and other invited guests recently. Located in Ssonde, Mukono, the pupils thrilled their audience with their reading skills in Luganda,...
View ArticleMbarara, Gulu, Busitema universities release govt admissions lists
The academic committees of Mbarara, Gulu and Busitema universities formally released their government sponsorship admissions lists last Friday. According to the lists, published in The Observer today,...
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Kakira SS wins Busoga schools debating competition
Kakira Secondary School emerged winners of the second Busoga schools regional debate competition held at Busoga College, Mwiri in Jinja recently. According to a statement from Uganda Dialogue Arena...
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Speaker Oulanyah tips UMI graduates on integrity
Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah has urged graduates of Uganda Management Institute (UMI) to be torchbearers of integrity at their workplaces, in a bid to end rampant corruption in the country. In his...
View ArticleSchools get app development skills
Makerere University's school of Public Health's ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) recently launched Technovation Challenge outreach in several secondary schools across the country. Started on April 2,...
View ArticleInnovators await results of Makerere’s RAN initiative
Some 20 innovative teams are waiting with baited breath as Makerere University’s Resilience African Network (RAN) prepares to announce the results of the second round of innovators' pitch for new...
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Lwengo school seeks out its old pupils
When Peace Immaculate Nansubuga was deployed to head Kikonge primary school in Kkingo sub-county of Lwengo district at the start of 2015, she did not know what to expect. She had spent hardly a year at...
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Student clubs make reusable sanitary pads
With demand for affordable sanitary towels growing, 200 students from 23 schools decided to take matters into their own hands, participating in a one-day business clubs’ exercise. The event, organised...
View ArticleKanyeihamba lectures Cavendish law students
Retired Supreme court judge George Kanyeihamba recently had a grandfatherly moment with Cavendish University Uganda students. Dubbed “Justice Kanyeihamba’s premier conversation with students:...
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Embattled Prof Magara eyeing Makerere vice chancellor job
Prof Elisam Magara A highly placed source at Makerere University has told The Observer that among the four professors who expressed interest in the position of vice chancellor is suspended don Prof...
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UCU introduces new humanities programmes
The executive director of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI), Dr Livingstone Sewanyana has commended Uganda Christian University (UCU) for introducing two new programmes in the...
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Shs 90m raised in Makerere run
It was a rainy Sunday morning, but nothing was going to dampen the mood, as ALI TWAHA joined thousands of Makerere University students and well-wishers in a run to raise funds for the Students' Centre,...
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'Private sector should finance skills training'
Less than a kilometre from Kalungami trading centre in Iganga district stands what should be Nabitende Vocational Training Institute. But, as ABUBAKER MAYEMBA found, the entire project was abandoned...
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