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 […]
(Published Wednesday, December 15, 2021) By Ritah Mukasa January 10, 2022 has been confirmed as the day for the official opening of schools. Children are warming up to resume physical classes, but there is a group of learners who had just started their education journey in kindergarten when schools closed in March last year. Even […]
By Bob Kisiki Admit it, the children were away from school way too long. Much too long. And in all that time, we cannot keep our heads in the lulling sand of consolation thinking nothing changed, yet we know that the one thing necessary for change to occur has been happening all along – time. […]
Bob Kisiki When education shifted from the physical classroom for the ordinary Ugandan child, parents and school managers had lots of adjusting to do. People who had never looked at the laptop as something more than that gadget where they do excel spreadsheets for the end-of-month financial records or the staff timesheets, began to learn […]
It is almost a month since learners returned to schools after they were closed in March 2020 to manage the spread of COVID-19. Many students have grown very big and tall after some have become mothers, while others were left behind by fellow students who attended virtual lessons. David Lukiiza talked to experts for coping […]
By Andrew Masinde Residents in Bumasikye sub-county in Mbale district have asked the Government to take over a secondary school, which they established in 2013 to serve their community. Before Bumasikye Secondary School was set up, the learners in this community walked over 1o kilometres to get to either Busiu Secondary School or […]