Muslims ask Govt to include Madrasah in national syllabus

Feb 14, 2014

Muslims have asked the Ministry of Education to incorporate Madrasah Muslim teachings into its national syllabus as one of the ways to enforce the minimum standards of teaching and learning.

By Carol Kasujja and Amito Ann

Muslims have asked the Ministry of Education to incorporate Madrasah Muslim teachings into its national syllabus as one of the ways to enforce the minimum standards of teaching and learning.


This was revealed by the president of Muslim centre for justice and law, Jaffer Senganda, during the launch of the Uganda Madrasah guidelines.

“Instead of blaming the Government for not embracing the Madrasah, the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council should take initiative to register all the madrasah with the ministry to enforce the minimum standards,” said Senganda.

Madrasa is Arabic word which means education. Currently it is estimated that Uganda has more than 800 madrasah (pre-primary and junior section), however, most of them are unregistered. It was a dream that started with converting a mosque into a learning centre. A decade later, the dream has become reality.

He noted that for long, Madrasahs have been engulfed in different trials and tribulations because of uncoordinated management but when the Ministry of Education comes on board, they will not be misinterpreted.

In the guidelines, the Madrasah will ensure that children’s rights are protected from abuse, violence, discrimination, security and a favorable learning environment for effective learning.

The guidelines will expose pupils to integrated approaches in both Islam and secular, they will acquire knowledge comprises of the basic tools like reading, writing, oral communication and computer literacy.

While launching the guidelines, Dr. Yusuf Nsubuga, the director of basic and secondary Education, at the education ministry, said that the guidelines will give good advice particularly to people who manage Madrasah.

“We can no longer operate Madrasah like we used to do; we need to transform educators and planners into competent managers of Madrasahs for the contemporary educational setting,”  Nsubuga said.

During the launch, the police spokesperson Judith Nabakoba thanked the Muslim centre for justice and law for coming up with the guidelines.

“I hope that the book will be spread all over the country and translated in different languages so that different people can understand it better. These guidelines will be helpful to the security agents,” Nabakoba said.


 

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