By Vision Reporter Most young people have specific professional aspirations, to which they fix their focus during and after university. The young people also tend to stick to their preferred profession/ occupation, paying no mind to alternative employment opportunities. The Japanese Ambassador, Fukuzawa Hidemoto, discourages this, calling for flexibility for one to flourish even amidst […]
By Mathias Mazinga The government has entered a partnership with PEAS Uganda, an educational non-governmental organisation, to improve access and delivery of secondary education. The partnership was sealed with the launching of a joint strategy, PEAS Uganda/ Ministry of Education and Sports Systems Strengthening Strategy. The strategy was launched by the education ministry’s director of […]
By John Eremu and Esther Arinaitwe Teachers should take the lead in mindset change in Karamoja by emphasising peaceful co-existence and the dangers of cattle rustling, the Moroto district secretary for education and social services has said. “You are leaders in your own right,” Cosmas Ayepa said on Friday during a New Vision Newspapers in […]
By Nelson Kiva The new lower secondary curriculum is already making a noticeable difference in skills development in schools that have fully embraced it. Alvine Augustine Ggali, a student at Our Lady of Good Counsel Secondary School Gayaza in Wakiso district, says he is benefiting from the new curriculum. “I did not know how to […]
By Maureen Nakatudde The International Mathematics Day is celebrated on March 14, but in Uganda it was marked on March 19. The event, according to Dr Rebecca Nalule, the head of the mathematics department at Busitema University, is aimed at spreading awareness that mathematics is important and should be given priority. The celebration, held at […]
By Mathias Mazinga The Rev Br. Deogratias Mugema has an aura of humility, simplicity and friendliness. The member of the Catholic Religious Institute of the Brothers of Christian Instruction wears a consistent smile, which helps him befriend whoever he comes in contact with. Regardless of the easy-going impression you may get when you meet him […]
By Nelson Kiva In a bid to provide quality education, the education ministry revised the lower secondary school curriculum. The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) in a January 23, 2020 circular commissioned the new curriculum designed to reduce content overload, contact hours in the classroom, foster learner-centred pedagogy, competence-based approach and criterion-referenced assessment. However, on […]
By Mathias Mazinga Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has asked the fresh graduates of the University of Kisubi to be ‘hands-on’ professionals that can do whatever productive job comes their way. She discouraged the ‘white-collar-job’ mentality, which she said contributes to unemployment. “This graduation marks the completion of one chapter and the beginning of another. You […]
Dickson Tumuramye During the two years of the COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown in Uganda, the rate of teenage pregnancy was alarmingly high. These teenage girls were staying home with their parents, siblings and relatives where one would expect them to be safe, but this was not the case. There are also many cases of children being […]
Money. Doesn’t it speak for itself? Does it need any further introduction? It is the reason millions wake up at the proverbial crack of dawn and go to work in factories, offices, gardens and elsewhere. It is the reason some marry the people they marry; and the reason many leave their marriages. It is what […]