Janet Billy Mulindwa The Government has made education accessible to many children through universal primary and secondary education programmes. As a result, there are more students now graduating from educational institutions than ever before. Universities and other higher institutions release hundreds of graduates into the labour market each year. Unfortunately, many of the graduates remain […]
By Bob G. Kisiki Growing up in Jinja, Irene knew her cousin, nauma, as her social and moral compass. Whatever nauma did was worth doing; whatever she avoided, Irene avoided, too.Irene made friends whom nauma approved of; no one came close to her whom nauma did not think fit to hang around her little cousin. […]
Sometimes you just don’t have the space (and grace) to take in some of the things you will hear. The other day, a friend told me about a class she teaches, where children – dot.com children (oh, the very irony!) – did not know how to write and send emails! Oh yes, teenage children for […]
By Bob G. Kisiki We will call her Anita. She was the first child in her family to go to university, so her parents – especially her mother, who was the sterner of the two parents – looked at Anita as both an asset and a potential catastrophe waiting to happen. You know, with all […]
By Enock Kibuuka It is now sixty years since Uganda became an independent state. Uganda’s socio-economic landscape has since metamorphosed seismically with political bellicosity and turmoil being a major characteristic, at least for the first thirty years after independence. However, it is worth noting that, out of these sixty years of independence, the National Resistance […]
This article was first published in December 2021 By David Lukiiza Daniela Adong, a student at Mt St Mary’s College Namagunga, has emerged winner of the Young Africans Writers Contest (YAWC) 2021. Adong beat 850 participants to the prize in September, in the competition organised by the Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) and the […]
(Published on Wednesday, December 22, 2021) By Vision Reporter The Government is still committed to offering support to academic institutions to ensure that they re-open, according to the state minister for higher education, Dr John Chrysostom Muyingo. Dr Muyingo says the Government has already released funds to schools ahead of the reopening. The minister made […]
Bob Kisiki If there is one thing you cannot deny, it is that we live in a time when loving has taken on new dimensions, and in a society where certain kinds of love are frowned upon. If you visit the one-stop centre of all forms of opinions, attitudes and viewpoints, the Internet – you […]
(Published on Wednesday, December 22, 2021) Apart from introducing authentic learning, the COVID-19 crisis has stepped up online learning By Conan Businge I f there is anything to gain from the COVID-19 pandemic, which left schools closed for almost two years and affecting 15 million learners, it should be the opportunity to change the country’s […]
This article was first published in New Vision Newspaper in December 2021 By Bob Kisiki Isn’t all of life cyclic? Birth, growth, death. Morning, afternoon, evening and night. In some parts, you have winter, autumn, spring and summer. You have budding, growth, harvest and sowing afresh. It’s all about cycles. Nobody gets stuck at one […]