To tackle teacher absenteeism and improve monitoring, the Ministry introduced a smartphone-based system called the Teachers Effectiveness and Learner Achievement (TELA) tool. TELA was designed to provide real-time data on teacher attendance and classroom activities.
Faced with declining external financing, the government has to make its priorities right to ensure that the available resources are optimally utilized, but fears are that this might hurt other sectors, especially social services and agriculture.
On Wednesday, the District Security team comprising representatives from the Police, Uganda People’s Defense Forces, the Resident District Commissioner and the NUP Organizing committee met in Migyera town to resolve the matter.
Burton Bbumba, the Headteacher of Luwero Boys Primary School, said that he registered 106 candidates for PLE but 104 were present and sat the examinations. Bbumba explained that one candidate with special needs was withdrawn by the parent, and the second dropped out this term due to domestic violence.
The storm, which occurred during a heavy downpour on Friday evening, demolished the school, leaving 12 pupils critically injured, though they have since been discharged from Kabaale Health Center III.
The incident occurred on Friday at around 4 p.m. as the heavy downpour lasted over two hours, catching the pupils at school, where they had taken shelter in their classrooms.
Cyrus Muwanga, a former table tennis player and gold medalist at the All-Africa Games, underscored the need for more funding to popularize the sport in schools.
According to information gathered by Uganda Radio Network (URN), their supervisor assigned the two guards to guard Kizirafumbi Secondary School in Kizirafumbi sub-county, Kikuube district.
A fellow student informed police detectives that Nantongo was frequently in tears and experiencing trauma due to this academic pressure, which may have contributed to her suicide.
For the past eight years, Stanbic Bank Uganda has hosted secondary school debate competitions known as the Stanbic National School Championship. The competition aims to identify and promote talent, stimulate innovation, and recognize the best innovative idea with significant business sense and societal impact.
Nabbanja said that she will draft a cabinet paper, detailing the benefits of skilling learners in agriculture technologies and available opportunities, with much emphasis on it’s viability to foster mindset change amongst the wider population of young people, who for long have been shaped as job seekers rather than creators.
The girl claims that Basalaine defiled her in April in one of the girls' pit latrines. She alleges that Basalaine had made previous attempts to defile her in November 2022 and had informed the school head teacher, Florence Nahidora, and her deputy, but no action was taken.
Hussein Bruhan, one of the directors of Hoima town mosque Nursery and Primary school explains that they had a loud blast from the dormitory that was followed by huge flames.
The head teacher, Dr. Saul Mubanda Muyigwa, told Uganda Radio Network in an interview that they realized that thugs had broken into the computer room on Wednesday morning.
