A section of angry parents of Kayunga Girls’ Primary School in Kayunga Town Council, Kayunga District have asked authorities in the area to take punitive action against their school headteacher whom they accuse of sabotaging the government’s Universal Primary Education (UPE) program. The parents, who were led by a parent who identified herself as Susan […]
The President further added that the strategy only requires the government to set up the necessary infrastructure such as constructing classrooms, computer libraries, science laboratories, houses for teachers and paying teachers. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has reiterated his call to Ugandans to support the government’s strategy of free education for all in government schools. According […]
The State House Anti-Corruption Unit in conjunction with the Police and Office of the Director of Public Prosecution have arraigned before court a school headteacher and seven Parents and Teachers Association (PTA) members. The suspects include; Herbert Musasizi, the headteacher of Kebisoni Integrated Primary School, the PTA chairperson, Paddy Twesigye and six other PTA members. […]
A mob comprising parents of pupils at Kamiigo Primary School, in Buyengo town council of Jinja district have today stormed the head teacher’s office with the intention to lynch him over poor results from last year’s Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). The parents who had been invited for the beginning of year meeting with the teachers […]
The government is considering revoking its partnership and grant aiding private schools that are faulting the Universal Education policy. The State Minister in Charge of Primary Education Doctor Joyce Moriku Kaducu, said that the government is going to withdraw its capitation grants and any support to private schools that have continued to overcharge its students […]
Luweero Chief Administrative Officer has directed five head teachers to refund over sh24m allocated under the Universal Primary Education (UPE) program. It follows the failure of the affected headteachers to account for the funds disbursed under the third and fourth quarters of the 2022/23 financial year for purchasing scholastic materials, facilitating co-curricular activities, and administrative […]
Mukasa the school headteacher is said to have mortgaged the land title of the government school to acquire the loan to buy a plot of land. There is panic among parents and leaders after Wobulenzi Public Primary School in Luweero district was put on sale over failure to repay a loan. In 2019, Richard Mukasa […]
The Social Media is awash with the pictures of Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament, Betty Nambooze Bakireke putting on a school uniform for her former primary school which she left over 41 years ago after sitting for her Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). Clad in a purple dress, with a badge reading Bishop East Primary School, Nambooze […]