New curriculum for 2013

Feb 03, 2009

A NEW secondary schools curriculum will be ready in the next four years, the director of the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), Connie Kateeba, has said.

By Raymond Baguma
A NEW secondary schools curriculum will be ready in the next four years, the director of the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), Connie Kateeba, has said.

Kateeba said the curriculum review starts in the 2009/10 financial year.

She was on Tuesday speaking at the annual head teachers’ workshop at Namboole Stadium in Kampala.

She said the curriculum had not been reviewed over the years although new subjects like political education, entrepreneurship and computer studies had been added.

“We still run a curriculum inherited from the colonial government,” she said, adding that adding of new content had resulted into an overloaded curriculum, making a total of 41 subjects offered in lower secondary.

Some teachers from Universal Secondary Education schools which implement the double-shift programme complained that they were unable to complete the syllabus because of work overload and the few study hours.

Ahead of the review, Kateeba said the ministry had suspended subjects that enrol few students, have overlaps and outdated content.

They include health science, political education, general science, shorthand and typing, electronics and electricity.

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