Kyambogo hikes PTC admission requirements
Nov 21, 2004
KYAMBOGO University has hiked admission requirements for candidates into Primary Teachers Colleges (PTCs) as from the 2005/2006 academic year.
By Patrick Opio
KYAMBOGO University has hiked admission requirements for candidates into Primary Teachers Colleges (PTCs) as from the 2005/2006 academic year.
The Academic Registrar, Dr Alfred Cula’s circular to PTC principals and headteachers of secondary schools said entry requirements into PTCs shall be a Uganda Education Certificate (UCE) with a minimum of six passes obtained at one sitting, up from the previous four.
Cula said the university council resolved that a candidate must pass English and Mathematics and two science subjects.
He said the two science subjects must be chosen from, at least, two of the science subject categories.
Category A comprises Agriculture, category B has biological sciences (health science, general science-biology), while category C has physics and chemistry.
Cula said the visually impaired and deaf candidates will be admitted with a minimum of any six passes.
A lecturer, who preferred anonymity said several teachers produced in the 1980s and 90s failed Mathematics and English, with one or two passes in other subjects.
“Many primary teachers joined the profession as a last resort. They had no future except in teaching. But Kyambogo plans to streamline PTC admissions and select the best to teach our siblings,†he said.
“How can a blind person guide a fellow blind person!†he asked.
He added that some teachers used academic papers of dead people or their relatives who had got other jobs in different professions.
Cula said those who dropped out in Senior One or Two and joined the teaching profession with competence test results might be weeded out soon in a validation exercise.
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KYAMBOGO University has hiked admission requirements for candidates into Primary Teachers Colleges (PTCs) as from the 2005/2006 academic year.
The Academic Registrar, Dr Alfred Cula’s circular to PTC principals and headteachers of secondary schools said entry requirements into PTCs shall be a Uganda Education Certificate (UCE) with a minimum of six passes obtained at one sitting, up from the previous four.
Cula said the university council resolved that a candidate must pass English and Mathematics and two science subjects.
He said the two science subjects must be chosen from, at least, two of the science subject categories.
Category A comprises Agriculture, category B has biological sciences (health science, general science-biology), while category C has physics and chemistry.
Cula said the visually impaired and deaf candidates will be admitted with a minimum of any six passes.
A lecturer, who preferred anonymity said several teachers produced in the 1980s and 90s failed Mathematics and English, with one or two passes in other subjects.
“Many primary teachers joined the profession as a last resort. They had no future except in teaching. But Kyambogo plans to streamline PTC admissions and select the best to teach our siblings,†he said.
“How can a blind person guide a fellow blind person!†he asked.
He added that some teachers used academic papers of dead people or their relatives who had got other jobs in different professions.
Cula said those who dropped out in Senior One or Two and joined the teaching profession with competence test results might be weeded out soon in a validation exercise.
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