The Uganda National Examinations Board-UNEB wants the forthcoming cycle of examinations to be carried out under a new law which was passed by Parliament on Thursday. The new Uganda National Examinations Board-UNEB Bill which seeks to repeal the 1983 Act creates reforms relating to the administration and management of primary and secondary national examinations. The…
Forty five Ugandan start-ups will each get a budget boost of over sh140million to enable them refine and complete their innovations. The 45 were picked by the selectors – The National ICT Initiatives Support Program (NIISP) – as having the best chance of hitting the Ugandan, African and global market. The 45 innovators shall receive…
Kampala Parents School, one of the leading private primary schools in the country, has set dates on which it will conduct interviews for pupils who want to join the school in the first term of the 2021 academic year. The move is to help Parents and pupils interested in joining Kampala Parents’ School in the…
Victoria University, one of the many education investments made by the Ruparelia Group, has announced that aspiring students can now get fully funded scholarships to study courses of their choice at the Jinja Road-based institution. Victoria University Vice-Chancellor Dr Krishna N. Sharma said students applying will, however, be mandated to pay a small application fee. The university…
By Our Reporter Mbarara: Hundreds of students in candidate classes at Ntare School, in Mbarara District, are stranded after the school’s support staff staged a sit-down strike over salary arrears for several months on top of working under poor conditions. The support staff who include cooks, cleaners, guards and others complain that they have gone…
Head teachers of different schools are concerned about plans by the government to open schools for other classes. Government is planning to reopen for more classes before the candidates sit for their final exams early next year. In October, the government reopened schools but only for candidate classes, after more than six months of inactivity.…
While schools haven’t been full reopened by the government following their closure due to spread of coronavirus, schools and parents are preparing for the next academic year which normally starts late January. Parents and school administrators are optimistic that the government will reopen the learning centre. Schools, with strict adherence to health guidelines and SOPs,…
Upon assuming his responsibilities as the chairperson of the new 14-member governing council at Victoria University on Wednesday, Joram Kahenano, has said the priority now is to help Victoria University attained the prestigious and important Charter Status. “We have already made an application (for a charter to the National Council for Higher Education); the Council…
Members of Parliament have declined approval of the Shs 336.8 billion supplementary expenditure request for purchase of nine million radios to facilitate the long distance learning programme. The request is part of Shs 353.867 billion supplementary expenditure request that was laid before Parliament by the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development on 20 October…
Kampala Parents School has announced that there will be no admission fees for term one of the 2021 academic year, however, pupils will undergo a mandatory interview process to test them. This website have learnt that Parents intending to enrol their children at the school have been advised to call the school and book to…
