In Brief
Jun 27, 2004
‘Avoid sugar mummies’<br>MUKONO – Nyenga LC3 boss Sam Lwanga has cautioned students on sugar mummies because they can easily get HIV. He said students from his sub-county have started loving sugar mummies in order to get money for lunch and buy telephones.
‘Avoid sugar mummies’
MUKONO – Nyenga LC3 boss Sam Lwanga has cautioned students on sugar mummies because they can easily get HIV. He said students from his sub-county have started loving sugar mummies in order to get money for lunch and buy telephones. Lwanga was addressing students, teachers and parents of Nyenga Senior Secondary School Kigudu recently at the School campus.
Curriculum for review
KAMPALA – The education curriculum for Primary Teachers Colleges is to undergo a review to devise new changes. Kyambogo University secretary Maria Semwezi said a research was carried out to analyse PTC curriculum. The findings were presented before the National Development Curriculum Centre (NDCC) for review.
UPE students dropout
LIRA – The commissioner for primary education, Sam Onek, has said more than 50,000 UPE pupils from Lango and Acholi region have left schools. He said 12,141 UPE children left Lira schools, 11,295 from Apac, 10,288 from Gulu, 5,170 from Kitgum and Pader, 8623. He revealed this at a workshop at Lira Hotel recently.
‘Improve ICT quality’
KAMPALA – The chairperson of the Uganda Institute of Information and Computer Technology (UICT) academic board, Norah Mulira has called for quality ICT services in the country. “There are people with great ideas on paper but fail to put them into practice. We should move ICT an extra mile in the country,†Mulira said while presiding over the UICT guild handover ceremony at the institute headquarters in Nakawa recently.
Kotido gets
KOTIDO – The district has constructed a technical institute for vocational training programmes.
The CAO, Walter Iriama, said the seven-block institute constructed with funds from the Local Government Development Programme and that from the Karamoja project initiative unit would open in January next year.
MUKONO – Nyenga LC3 boss Sam Lwanga has cautioned students on sugar mummies because they can easily get HIV. He said students from his sub-county have started loving sugar mummies in order to get money for lunch and buy telephones. Lwanga was addressing students, teachers and parents of Nyenga Senior Secondary School Kigudu recently at the School campus.
Curriculum for review
KAMPALA – The education curriculum for Primary Teachers Colleges is to undergo a review to devise new changes. Kyambogo University secretary Maria Semwezi said a research was carried out to analyse PTC curriculum. The findings were presented before the National Development Curriculum Centre (NDCC) for review.
UPE students dropout
LIRA – The commissioner for primary education, Sam Onek, has said more than 50,000 UPE pupils from Lango and Acholi region have left schools. He said 12,141 UPE children left Lira schools, 11,295 from Apac, 10,288 from Gulu, 5,170 from Kitgum and Pader, 8623. He revealed this at a workshop at Lira Hotel recently.
‘Improve ICT quality’
KAMPALA – The chairperson of the Uganda Institute of Information and Computer Technology (UICT) academic board, Norah Mulira has called for quality ICT services in the country. “There are people with great ideas on paper but fail to put them into practice. We should move ICT an extra mile in the country,†Mulira said while presiding over the UICT guild handover ceremony at the institute headquarters in Nakawa recently.
Kotido gets
KOTIDO – The district has constructed a technical institute for vocational training programmes.
The CAO, Walter Iriama, said the seven-block institute constructed with funds from the Local Government Development Programme and that from the Karamoja project initiative unit would open in January next year.