DEO grills headteachers over ‘blotted registers’
Feb 07, 2006
SOME primary schools in Mbarara district concoct figures and claim that teachers and pupils attend at 150%, the District Education Officer, Daniel Tamwesigyire, has said.
By Ebenezer Bifubyeka
SOME primary schools in Mbarara district concoct figures and claim that teachers and pupils attend at 150%, the District Education Officer, Daniel Tamwesigyire, has said.
“It is strange to see in your registers that no teacher or student was absent in 58 days of the previous term. This is impossible. A total of 35 schools in Kashari gave such wrong data. Let us respect our profession,†he said.
Tamwesigyire was on Thursday distributing the 2005 Primary Leaving Examinations results to 175 headteachers of primary schools in the district. The teachers gathered in the Ntare School Chapel near Mbarara town.
He said 41% of the headteachers and their deputies abused their offices by failing to follow the attendance registers. He said some headteachers were never at school and some report to school after 8:30am.
Tamwesigyire, who asked schools to participate in co-curricular activities, said some headmasters take three months before collecting the PLE results and their students sit for exams without identity cards. He said some schools have no signposts.
He said Kibale primary school was the best among government schools with 87% pass.
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SOME primary schools in Mbarara district concoct figures and claim that teachers and pupils attend at 150%, the District Education Officer, Daniel Tamwesigyire, has said.
“It is strange to see in your registers that no teacher or student was absent in 58 days of the previous term. This is impossible. A total of 35 schools in Kashari gave such wrong data. Let us respect our profession,†he said.
Tamwesigyire was on Thursday distributing the 2005 Primary Leaving Examinations results to 175 headteachers of primary schools in the district. The teachers gathered in the Ntare School Chapel near Mbarara town.
He said 41% of the headteachers and their deputies abused their offices by failing to follow the attendance registers. He said some headteachers were never at school and some report to school after 8:30am.
Tamwesigyire, who asked schools to participate in co-curricular activities, said some headmasters take three months before collecting the PLE results and their students sit for exams without identity cards. He said some schools have no signposts.
He said Kibale primary school was the best among government schools with 87% pass.
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