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Daily Monitor
Monday March 01 2021
A parent and his children on Ben Kiwanuka Street in Kampala yesterday after shopping for school yesterday. PHOTO / STEPHEN OTAGE
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Caution. “You should wear a human heart and allow parents to pay in instalments. Of course, a child should not report without anything. We encourage effective communication with the parents so that they can be able to pay the money,” Patrick Kaboyo, national secretary of Federation of Non State Educational institutions
At St Joseph’s Girls’ SS Nsambya in Kampala, the administrators were hostile to journalists covering the students’ return to school.
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The Federation of Non State Education Institutions (FENEI)has warned private schools against forcing parents to pay the full tuition balance, reminding them that most parents are currently unemployed.
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.
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.
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