WHAT A WEEK: Bundibugyo Lays Strategy
Jun 08, 2003
IT was a week of long hours in the queue for many parents. Reason was they were paying school fees for their children who reported back to school on Wednesday, June 4.
IT was a week of long hours in the queue for many parents. Reason was they were paying school fees for their children who reported back to school on Wednesday, June 4. This was odd as the school term usually opens on a Monday.
Talking of a growing school-going population, Makerere University has not been spared. For a long time, undergraduates did similar subjects under different faculties. Makerere University now plans to start a college of humanities.
Several faculties and institutes will be merged. The merger is expected to begin late next year with the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts, Makerere Institute of Economics, Institute of Psychology and that of Social Research.
Environment students at Makerere University are not only learning theory. They are out to defend the society in which they live. At least they proved themselves so recently, while celebrating the World Environment Day. The Makerere University Environment Management Association (MUEMA), a students association, attacked the Government over the construction of a supermarket by Shoprite at Lugogo. Victor Onen, a member of MUEMA, said government was contradicting itself by ordering Kampala City Council to demolish houses in the wetlands and approve the construction of a supermarket on a green belt.
It is not enough to sit back and do nothing about a tormenting situation as Bundibugyo district has demonstrated.
Having been the second last performing district in last year’s Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), district heads of departments resolved to step up inspections of primary schools. This is in a bid to improve the results of the performance in the district. Hopefully the inspection team recommendations, if any, do not merely remain on paper.
There are tricks that the Uganda College of Commerce, Kabale, can no longer apply. For many years they have used funds without budgets approved by the Board of Governors. The Inspector General of Government, Jotham Tumwesigye, uncovered the scam after a tip off. Investigations discovered that the scam involved billions of shillings. Part of the problems seems to be in the way the college operates. The IGG report reveals that the college operates on the principal’s budget.
The board chairman is the principal’s uncle. Ends
Talking of a growing school-going population, Makerere University has not been spared. For a long time, undergraduates did similar subjects under different faculties. Makerere University now plans to start a college of humanities.
Several faculties and institutes will be merged. The merger is expected to begin late next year with the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts, Makerere Institute of Economics, Institute of Psychology and that of Social Research.
Environment students at Makerere University are not only learning theory. They are out to defend the society in which they live. At least they proved themselves so recently, while celebrating the World Environment Day. The Makerere University Environment Management Association (MUEMA), a students association, attacked the Government over the construction of a supermarket by Shoprite at Lugogo. Victor Onen, a member of MUEMA, said government was contradicting itself by ordering Kampala City Council to demolish houses in the wetlands and approve the construction of a supermarket on a green belt.
It is not enough to sit back and do nothing about a tormenting situation as Bundibugyo district has demonstrated.
Having been the second last performing district in last year’s Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), district heads of departments resolved to step up inspections of primary schools. This is in a bid to improve the results of the performance in the district. Hopefully the inspection team recommendations, if any, do not merely remain on paper.
There are tricks that the Uganda College of Commerce, Kabale, can no longer apply. For many years they have used funds without budgets approved by the Board of Governors. The Inspector General of Government, Jotham Tumwesigye, uncovered the scam after a tip off. Investigations discovered that the scam involved billions of shillings. Part of the problems seems to be in the way the college operates. The IGG report reveals that the college operates on the principal’s budget.
The board chairman is the principal’s uncle. Ends