“Beginning FY 2026/27, an additional Shs568.65 billion has been allocated to enhance salaries for primary school teachers and arts teachers in secondary schools and BTVET institutions,” Musaasizi said during the budget presentation. The government has moved to address long-standing salary disparities in the education sector by approving a salary enhancement package for arts and primary […]
Over one month now, since the beginning of third term, the arts teachers boycotted classes with demands that the government fulfills its commitment to pay them salaries commensurate with the work they do as it did with their science subjects’ counterparts. Arts subjects teachers who put down tools over empty government pay rise promises have […]
