This article was first published in the New Vision on January 20, 2021 By Bishop Arnold Muwonge By some sort of miracle, one of our orphaned children at Kampala Children Centre got a high school scholarship in the US. When she was still in school in Uganda, she was not the best student in her […]
This article was first published on the New Vision website on April 12, 2023 By Ritah Mukasa JINJA – Today April 12, Uganda joins the world to mark the International Day for Street Children under the theme, ‘Keeping the Street Connected and Safe’. This day serves to provide a voice for children who live on the […]
By Bob Kisiki Sometimes you just don’t have the space (and grace) to take in some of the things you will hear. Like 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 […]
By Kellen Owente School head teachers have said the first New Vision Education Expo, which begins this Friday, will help revive the sector. The expo, which will run from January 27 to 29 at the Uganda Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Nakawa, Kampala, comes a year after schools reopened following a two-year COVID-19-triggered […]
By Bob Kisiki The truth is, life as we knew it up to February 2020, may never recur. Sad reality. Besides the fact that we do not have the slightest idea how much longer we have to contend with the rampaging coronavirus, we cannot assume that the world is seated under some shade, waiting for […]
By Kellen Owente With two weeks to the New Vision Education Expo, the Forum for African Women Educationists (FAWE) Uganda chapter is optimistic that the event will contribute towards the recovery of the sector, which was heavily hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Susan Tumusiime, the FAWE-Uganda executive director, says schoolchildren were severely impacted by the […]
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 […]
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 […]