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Music education, growing but very challenging sector


Daily Monitor
Tuesday December 29 2020
Learners of Esom School of Music Rubaga have resumed lessons. But face-to-face instruction has been met with increased operation costs due to social distancing guidelines. PHOTO/GEORGE KATONGOLE.
Summary
Music education in Uganda is sporadic with some schools actively teaching it and others not teaching it at all despite it featuring in the national curriculum.
This has consequently given rise to specialist music schools to bridge the gap. But there are more challenges to music education than just the Coronavirus pandemic.
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If you can speak, you can sing, is the catchphrase you read when you enter Esom School of Music along Rubaga Road in Kampala. It sums up the role of music as the heart and soul of human life. “There is evidence that studying music builds cultural knowledge, creative skills and improves health, wellbeing and wider educational attainment,” Daniel Innocent Kiyega, the director of E ....

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