Education briefs
Apr 15, 2008
<b>MP urges on prosperity</b><br>BUSHENYI - Integrate the Prosperity for All programme into primary schools, the Sheema North MP has advised. Elioda Tumwesigye said this would improve the teachers’ welfare.
MP urges on prosperity
BUSHENYI - Integrate the Prosperity for All programme into primary schools, the Sheema North MP has advised. Elioda Tumwesigye said this would improve the teachers’ welfare. He said the school management committees and headteachers should start income-generating projects to fight poverty. “You should stop waiting for the Government to give you everything. You must look at how you can get income for your schools and teachers,†Tumwesigye said recently at a meeting with headteachers of schools in his constituency, at St. Mukasa Preparatory School.
Buliisa gets classrooms
BULISA - The LC5 chairman, Fred Lulumu, has commissioned eight classroom blocks at Waiga 1 and Kisomere primary schools. They were constructed by Build Africa Uganda, an NGO operating in East Africa. They also donated 180 desks worth sh2m.
Varsity gets book donation
MBARARA - Books for Africa, a US books charity started by Tom Warth in 1988, has donated over 700 books to Bishop Stuart University to help it achieve the recommended amount of books in the library. University Secretary James Turyagyenda received the books.
Write books, Kavuma says
MUKONO - Baganda students need to write books in Luganda to safeguard their culture, a judge has said. Justice Steven Kavuma said many Baganda students are not literate in Luganda because there are few books written in Luganda. “There is secondary ignorance among baganda students. You find Baganda students who cannot read Bukedde, a Luganda paper, and others fear to speak Luganda in public,†Kavuma said at the hand-over ceremony of the Nkoba za Mbogo association leaders at Uganda Christian University.
New courses at Makerere
KAMPALA - Makerere University has introduced new graduate courses to match market demand. Dr. Williams Ddembe, the director in charge of quality assurance, said the new courses are Renewable Energy, offered at the Faculty of Technology and Applied Nutrition, at the Department of Food Science.
BUSHENYI - Integrate the Prosperity for All programme into primary schools, the Sheema North MP has advised. Elioda Tumwesigye said this would improve the teachers’ welfare. He said the school management committees and headteachers should start income-generating projects to fight poverty. “You should stop waiting for the Government to give you everything. You must look at how you can get income for your schools and teachers,†Tumwesigye said recently at a meeting with headteachers of schools in his constituency, at St. Mukasa Preparatory School.
Buliisa gets classrooms
BULISA - The LC5 chairman, Fred Lulumu, has commissioned eight classroom blocks at Waiga 1 and Kisomere primary schools. They were constructed by Build Africa Uganda, an NGO operating in East Africa. They also donated 180 desks worth sh2m.
Varsity gets book donation
MBARARA - Books for Africa, a US books charity started by Tom Warth in 1988, has donated over 700 books to Bishop Stuart University to help it achieve the recommended amount of books in the library. University Secretary James Turyagyenda received the books.
Write books, Kavuma says
MUKONO - Baganda students need to write books in Luganda to safeguard their culture, a judge has said. Justice Steven Kavuma said many Baganda students are not literate in Luganda because there are few books written in Luganda. “There is secondary ignorance among baganda students. You find Baganda students who cannot read Bukedde, a Luganda paper, and others fear to speak Luganda in public,†Kavuma said at the hand-over ceremony of the Nkoba za Mbogo association leaders at Uganda Christian University.
New courses at Makerere
KAMPALA - Makerere University has introduced new graduate courses to match market demand. Dr. Williams Ddembe, the director in charge of quality assurance, said the new courses are Renewable Energy, offered at the Faculty of Technology and Applied Nutrition, at the Department of Food Science.