‘Education Is Biased’

May 25, 2003

THE Book Development Council of Uganda (BODECU) has criticised the education and sports ministry, for awarding tenders to only foreign companies to publish and print primary school textbooks.

By Maurice Okore
THE Book Development Council of Uganda (BODECU) has criticised the education and sports ministry, for awarding tenders to only foreign companies to publish and print primary school textbooks.
Fred Kamya, the secretary general and representative of the Uganda Printers Association in BODECU, said the ministry always ignored bids from local publishers and printers for the tenders.
BODECU was recently meeting officials from the ministry at Hotel Africana to discuss opportunities and prospects for Ugandan printers and publishers in the school textbook procurement tenders.
Joseph Mutamba, head of procurement at the Instructional Materials Unit in the ministry, said the problem with local publishers was that they used poor quality materials to publish books that could hardly last a term in school.

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