Kabaka wants curriculum overhauled
Nov 07, 2010
KABAKA Ronald Mutebi wants Uganda’s education curriculum revamped to enable the country fight unemployment among its graduates.
By John Semakula
KABAKA Ronald Mutebi wants Uganda’s education curriculum revamped to enable the country fight unemployment among its graduates.
Mutebi was speaking during the 5th graduation ceremony of the Buganda Royal Institute of Business and Technical Education in Mengo on Friday. Mutebi said the new curriculum should include technical and vocational education.
“World over, countries which have developed put emphasis on vocational and technical skills. Our ancestors depended on crafts to survive but we neglected them and that is why we are finding it hard to adapt to the modern technology,†he said.
The Buganda king expressed fear that if the curriculum is not changed, the youth would lose interest in formal education.
Mutebi noted that many graduates from universities and institutions of higher learning end up on the streets every year.
Unemployment is one of the challenges all the eight presidential candidates in the ongoing campaigns are promising to fight.
Mutebi also reiterated Mengo’s commitment to promoting quality education, saying this was the best way the kingdom could be transformed.
A total of 1,260 students graduated with diplomas and certificates in various disciplines like accounting, tourism, marketing, computer science and civil engineering.
There were 770 female graduands compared to 490 last year. The principal of the institute, Anthony Wamala, appealed for more land to accommodate the increasing number of students.
The Katikkiro (premier) of Buganda, John Baptist Walusimbi, said the kingdom plans to set up a chain of vocational institutions across the kingdom.
“We have a proposal and we believe that if it is implemented, unemployment in Buganda will be defeated,†Walusimbi said.Â
He appealed to the graduates to desist from being exploited by shrewd politicians in the ongoing campaigns.
The Katikkiro asked them to use the knowledge they acquired through the education system to help the members in their communities to make wise choices in the general elections next year.
KABAKA Ronald Mutebi wants Uganda’s education curriculum revamped to enable the country fight unemployment among its graduates.
Mutebi was speaking during the 5th graduation ceremony of the Buganda Royal Institute of Business and Technical Education in Mengo on Friday. Mutebi said the new curriculum should include technical and vocational education.
“World over, countries which have developed put emphasis on vocational and technical skills. Our ancestors depended on crafts to survive but we neglected them and that is why we are finding it hard to adapt to the modern technology,†he said.
The Buganda king expressed fear that if the curriculum is not changed, the youth would lose interest in formal education.
Mutebi noted that many graduates from universities and institutions of higher learning end up on the streets every year.
Unemployment is one of the challenges all the eight presidential candidates in the ongoing campaigns are promising to fight.
Mutebi also reiterated Mengo’s commitment to promoting quality education, saying this was the best way the kingdom could be transformed.
A total of 1,260 students graduated with diplomas and certificates in various disciplines like accounting, tourism, marketing, computer science and civil engineering.
There were 770 female graduands compared to 490 last year. The principal of the institute, Anthony Wamala, appealed for more land to accommodate the increasing number of students.
The Katikkiro (premier) of Buganda, John Baptist Walusimbi, said the kingdom plans to set up a chain of vocational institutions across the kingdom.
“We have a proposal and we believe that if it is implemented, unemployment in Buganda will be defeated,†Walusimbi said.Â
He appealed to the graduates to desist from being exploited by shrewd politicians in the ongoing campaigns.
The Katikkiro asked them to use the knowledge they acquired through the education system to help the members in their communities to make wise choices in the general elections next year.