By Maureen Nakatudde Her friends encouraged her to get a boyfriend, but 14-year-old Shakira (not her real name) was nervous about the idea. Yet she felt odd among her friends at a secondary school in Mayuge district because they all had boyfriends. So, in 2020, a friend introduced to her a 25-year-old man, who lured […]
By Patrick Kaboyo Uganda has recently introduced new policies in the education sector. Some of these policies include the new lower secondary school curriculum, the National Teacher Policy and the Technical Vocational Education and Training Policy, among others. However, while the country’s education policy reform has largely been previously championed by teachers, many of these […]
A day before my classmates and I sat for Primary Leaving Examinations at a school in Kanungu district in 1966, the headmaster gathered us for a final briefing. The headmaster’s main point was to remind us to report to school at 7:00 am the following day. For me, that was a tall order because my […]