Hon. Kasole loses Kampala Parents
MONEY can indeed do wonders. That is what city tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia demonstrated during the week when he acquired Kampala Parent’s School.
MONEY can indeed do wonders. That is what city tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia demonstrated during the week when he acquired Kampala Parent’s School.
The school’s founder and principal Edward Kasole did not have a prepared text for the press when contacted.
Sticking to money related issues, it fell like manna for needy students in secondary schools when the education Ministry released over sh470m to support them.
The permanent Secretary Francis Lubanga called the concerned district officials to pick the cheques.
The only low point however, is that we never get to read testimonies of the beneficiaries.
In Kingdom matters, what started as a dream, is finally taking shape as a reality.
The Mengo government met over the proposal to start the Buganda Kingdom University. Issues discussed included location of the university and how to raise funds.
Then, the Islamic University in Uganda pulled a rare stroke when it announced that it would start a driving course so as to help reduce road accidents caused by unqualified drivers.
The Rector Dr. Ahmed Ssengendo disclosed this during the university’s 11th graduation ceremony. Well, one might be tempted to ask whether this means we’ll soon have graduate drivers with degrees and diplomas on our roads.
Away from driving courses, teenage pregnancies have dealt a heavy blow on girl-child education in Kasese.
The headmaster of Kuruhe Secondary School Alphone Piri Baluku, said in his school alone 16 girls who were defiled and impregnated last year dropped out of school.
Meanwhile, going on strike seems to have become the norm for any inkling of dissatisfaction. In Mbarara, it took the intervention of a man in a a cassock to quell a student’s strike at Bishop Stuart University.
The reason for the strike was no more than the scrapping of the office of the deputy vice chancellor. The students maintain he had been fired, but the cleric said the university was being restructured.