Edward Muyingo, a parent at Kansankala Primary School in Kagamba sub-county, says that on a daily basis, his children are required to carry along a 5-liter jerrycan of water whenever they are reporting to school.
Currently, pupils in these schools improvise with papyrus mats, timber, car tyres, and bricks while others sit on bare ground. According to Moses Baryamutuha, the headmaster of Kyabigondo Primary School, Ddwaniro, they do not have a single desk for learners in the nursery section and lower Primary sections.
According to Ssemutono, a substantial number of children in the district does not complete the ordinary secondary education level, which affects human resource development in the area.
The 48-page book titled “Tugambe Olukooki”, meaning Let Us Speak Lukooki, was officially launched at the 17th Coronation Anniversary of the Kamuswaga Apollo Ssansa Kabumbuli II at Kakoma Playground in Lwanda sub-county on Saturday.
Al-Haji Idi Ahmed Kiwanuka, the Kooki Prime Minister, says that they are strengthening the year’s theme to enhance child protection. Kiwanuka argues that girls who are protected and educated have a better chance to have a brighter future compared to those married off early.
Godfrey Kimbugwe, the Deputy Prime Minister Kooki Chiefdom, says the radio station is a key project they have been longing for to support their social transformation agenda among their subjects.
Joseph Lubega Byekwaso, the head teacher of Lwensambya Primary School in Rakai district had been arrested during an operation aiming to rid the district of ghost civil servants.
In 2011, the Kooki Cultural Leader Apollo Sansa Kabumbuli II launched a campaign to revive the language and possibly phase out Luganda or minimize its dominance among the subjects. The campaign was based on fears that the dialect was increasingly becoming extinct as less people in the chiefdom could comprehend it.
Betty Kamya couldn\'t openly accept or turn the call down. She however stated that much as they have political difference with president Museveni, their development ideologies are literally the same.
15 year old Mazzi sat his primary leaving education examination at Nabuunga Fountain of Education in Kalisizo Town Council in Rakai district where he was given a bursary.
St. Mary\'s Primary school is gathering signatures from parents and pupils to sue Uganda National Examination Board for failing to release their Primary Leaving Examination for the year 2013.
This morning, senior four candidates across the country started their final examinations with Geography paper 273/1 and 273/2. However in many of these schools, the candidates were givenGraph papers designed for advanced level candidates. Senior Six candidates will start their examinations on November 10th.
Ssemwogerere says all the affected teachers resolved to stop teaching as a protest move that will force government to disburse their salaries for the months of March, April and May.
Mukasa was last term transferred from Bigada secondary school in Kakuuto after parents revolted against him. But now the management of Bigada SS claims he went with a generator that had been providing power to the school. They also allege that Mukasa withdrew up to Ugx 920,000 from the school old Boys of account in Centenary banks Kyotera and disappeared with it.
Magobo explains that several classes at the school are virtually empty because parents withdrew their children because they were not getting enough food to feed them.
