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Daily Monitor
Monday March 01 2021
Mr Stuart Lubwama (right), the head teacher of Victorian High School in Entebbe, resorted to selling Chapatis at Abayita Ababiri on Entebbe Road. PHOTO/FILE.
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This comes as semi-candidates are set to return to school today.
Many of the non-returning teachers mainly in private schools, faced with no payment and other challenges of the lockdown, ventured into alternative income generating projects.
However, others in government-aided schools, despite having been receiving their monthly salaries, have also abandoned teaching after discovering better paying enterprises.
In Kabale District, for instance, Mr Moses Muhangi Tweyongyere, a secondary school geography teacher, who was earning Shs300,000 per month in a private school, is not returning to teaching.
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Daily Monitor
Friday February 26 2021
Students of Kakungulu Memorial Secondary School in Kampala attend lessons on February 25, 2021. PHOTO/ WILSON KUTAMBA
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During a press conference at State House Entebbe yesterday, the Minister of Education, Ms Janet Museveni, appealed to schools to adhere to new guidelines on SOPs released the institution.
In Tororo District, the education officer, Mr Albert Odoi, has warned that those who fail to comply with the standards will not be allowed to operate.
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This comes as schools prepare to receive semi-candidate classes on on Monday after a year of closure.
A Daily Monitor survey of some school in Kampala and across the country reveals that a number of schools are unable to implement the Ministry of Health recommended Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), especially the two-metre social distancing in classrooms and dormitories.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 24 2021
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Would it, therefore, in his view, be professionally and morally prudent for a medical doctor to deliberately under-dose malaria patients simply because there are widespread drug stockouts? I want to remind the Ministry of Education officials that poor education is worse than no education at all.
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Welcome to this simple question and answer exercise. And to get started, I am asking: What would be the best way to leverage teaching and lesson uptake for the “returnee” semi-candidate classes that are scheduled to resume schooling in March after an extended wait?
Is it by just abridging the curriculum content or through adoption of smarter teaching-learning strategies? These question is a derivative of the article that appeared in the Daily Monitor of February 17 titled: “Teachers, ministry officials split on curriculum”. The bone of contention between the teachers and their bosses at the Ministry of Education an