Coding of primary schools to start next year

Nov 23, 2016

He emphasized that there are over 2000 schools that have applied for cording of which majority qualify because they have all the requirements, however noting that there is a policy that the ministry must follow to consider a school for cording.

The education ministry is to resume coding of community primary schools come next financial year. This was revealed by the assistant commissioner Primary Education, Dr. Mukasa Lusambu, yesterday during the curtesy call to the Nwoya town council authorities at Nwoya district headquarters in northern Uganda.

The commissioner reveled that coding had not been possible for now due to lack of funds. He however noted that the ministry is to put in place funds that will enable the whole process to be complete.

"Before we cord any school we must be sure that there is sufficient money, that can pay for teachers' salaries, buy scholastic materials, the capitation grants and also money for the infrastructure. Most of the community schools that government takes over do not have the capacity to fulfil them, so it is the mandate of government to provide them," he noted.

 

He emphasized that there are over 2000 schools that have applied for cording of which majority qualify because they have all the requirements, however noting that there is a policy that the ministry must follow to consider a school for cording.

"The policy states that there should be one primary school in every parish, so the schools we are to start with next financial year are those in parishes where there is no single government primary school," He noted.

He called upon all district education officers to submit lists of parishes where there is no single primary school, and if they have community schools in these parishes then they are to be given urgent priority.

In her statement, the minister of state for primary education Rosemary Seninde also called upon all the DEOs to submit the lists of all dilapidated primary schools in their areas such that they can be put in plan for rehabilitation.

Seninde noted that come next financial year, the ministry of education is to ear mark funds that will help in the rehabilitation of schools.

"It is the governments mandate to see that children learn in good and health environment that is why we are to rehabilitate the schools. This will be possible if all the DEOs submit the lists of the dilapidated schools in time," she noted.

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