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Friday December 11 2020
Candidates at Main Street Primary School attend class on November 17. Government also says its trying to develop mechanisms that can ensure continuity of learning amid Covid-19. PHOTO/DENIS EDEMA
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The government had resolved that all sub-counties across the country should have a government secondary.
All the sub-counties that were in existence before 2015 have been catered for under the above arrangements.
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Government through the Education ministry has announced plans to construct 258 government secondary schools in sub-counties across the country that do not have any schools in the 2020/2021 Financial Year.
Speaking at the closure of the Education Sector Review 2019/2020 in Kampala yesterday, the ministry’s permanent secretary, Mr Alex Kakooza, said of the 258 schools to be constructed, 115 will be financed by the funds Ugandan government received from the World Bank to fund the Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer (Ug