(This article as first published in the New Vision on July 13, 2022) By Luke Kagiri For several weeks during the COVID-19 lockdown, Immaculate Nassozi, the headteacher of St Joseph’s Secondary School in Mityana district, explored the approaches her school could adopt to keep candidate students learning. One day as she read the New Vision, […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on July 6, 2022) By Ivan Tsebeni Development partners have commended Uganda for promoting the right to education for boys and girls. They said Government’s decision to promote equal access to education for boys and girls has allowed many children to complete primary education. Linda Aimee […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on July 6, 2022) By Patrick Okino When Rose Nakwagala was deployed to St Katherine Girls’ Secondary School in Lira district as headteacher in 2014, she noticed that many students did not have vocational skills. So she decided to submit proposals to local and international non-government […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on July 6, 2022) By Moses Bikala Over the last six months of 2021, Nickson Ouma, a teacher at St Philips Secondary School, was a common sight in four villages in Namayingo district. At the beginning of every week, he rode his bicycle through Lwangosia, Buhehe, […]
(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 […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on June 22, 2022) By Patrick Okino When Simon Okeng was posted to Acaba Secondary School in Oyam town council, Oyam district in 2014 as the acting headteacher, the school was struggling with low enrolment and poor academic performance. The institution had become a source of […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on June 22, 2022) She has helped pregnant school girls in Kaberamaido to resume studies By Michael Onyinge Caroline Ajumo did not know that parents in her neighbourhood would send their children to her house when she started teaching her own at home. However, this is […]
By Bob Kisiki Growing up in Jinja, Irene knew her cousin Nauma as her social and moral compass. What Nauma did was worth doing; what she avoided, Irene avoided, too. Irene made friends whom Nauma approved of; no one came close to her if Nauma did not think fi t to hang around her little […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on June 15, 2022) He Is Commended For Pacifying The Once Riotous Kisoro-Based School By Stephen Nuwagira Kabindi Secondary School is government-aided and was established in the 1980s. In fact, errant behaviour by staff and students had threatened to lead to the collapse of one of […]