(This article was first published in the New Vision on September 7, 2022) By Francis Emukule and Mary Karugaba Priscilla Karungi, a resident of Nateete, a Kampala suburb, was invited to collect her 11-year-old son from school a week before August 12, when schools officially closed for holidays. The school, located in Kampala, explained to […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on September 7, 2022) By Richard Wetaya Sixteen years ago, when Eddie Ssekyewa joined Gayaza High School, there were only 40 students taking mathematics at A’level. “I was concerned and I wanted to do something that would pay dividends in terms of raising the numbers,” he […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on September 7, 2022) By Stephen Nuwagira Jolly Mwebaze was posted as deputy headteacher to Kacu Primary School in Rubirizi district at the time when the institution was struggling with low morale among teachers and high cases of learner absenteeism. The teachers had gone without pay […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on August 24, 2022) By Umar Nsubuga When Teddy Nassiwa was deployed to head St Maria Goretti Senior Secondary School Katende in Mpigi district in 2018, she was determined to replicate the successes she had achieved in other schools. However, one challenge stood in her way […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on August 10, 2022) By Maureen Nakatudde Days after Joseph Mugeni took up his new teaching job at Waitambogwe Secondary School in Mayuge district in 2018, he was taken aback by the fact that many children had dropped out of the institution to work on sugarcane […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on August 10, 2022) By Robert Agida When Jilda Awekonimungu, 47, the deputy headteacher at Nebbi Primary School, cultivated a portion of the school’s land allocated to her during the COVID-19 lockdown, she did not know it would become a demonstration garden for learners in the […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on June 29, 2022) By Arnest Tumwesige Deans of Ugandan medical and dentistry schools have established a forum to improve the quality of teaching by facilitating resource sharing and research. The academics, who formed the forum in Gulu recently, said they will use it to deal […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on June 29, 2022) By Ritah Mukasa Standing before a panel of judges, not to receive a prize, but for questioning, can make you weak at the knees. Even with utmost preparation, you can end up panicking. This is what happened recently during the first ever […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on June 29, 2022) By Abdulkarim Ssengendo When President Yoweri Museveni closed the schools in March 2019 to contain the coronavirus disease, Brenda Asiimwe, a teacher of English and literature at Nyakayojo Secondary School in Mbarara City, thought they would probably reopen after a few weeks. […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on June 29, 2022) By Mathias Mazinga His phone buzzed as soon as he switched it on. Steven Musisi, a teacher of mathematics and chemistry at St Mary’s College, Kisubi (SMACK), had just stepped out of the studios of Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) television, after delivering […]