Daily Monitor
Monday May 03 2021
Luyanzi College students performing Chinese Kungu Fu dance at Confucius Institute anniversary at Makerere University on November 25, 2017. PHOTO | FILE
Summary
Learning. In 2019, the Ministry of Education introduced the Chinese language as a subject in secondary schools and the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) to enable some 60,000 students to acquire the language in the next four years.
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In 2018, the Uganda curriculum was revised and among the newly included subjects was teaching of Mandarin. However, three years down the road, the Chinese language teaching has been met with stiff challenges.
Rodney Rugyema, the administrator at the Confucius Institute, says that Covid-19 worsened an already bad situation. He says, for instance, language proficiency results expire after some time which calls for re-tooling.