Makerere Suspends Staff Promotions Amid Financial Crisis

The Vice-Chancellor Professor Barnabas Nawangwe says that two major errors were made during the said exercise. The appointments were made against positions that had fallen vacant in the previous year and it was assumed that all stop-gap staff (approximately 200 staff) would cease with effect from March 31 2019.

Professor Barnabas Nawangwe, the institution's Vice Chancellor says the three were suspended pending investigations for alleged sexual harassment against female students.

The aggrieved parents led by Samuel Akera, a concerned parent stormed the school this morning and asked the head teacher, Ether Gidudu to exit the school.

Lamwo District Education Officer Barnabas Langoya says the situation is worse among schools within refugee-hosting communities in the sub-counties of Palabek Ogili, Palabek Kal and Palabek Gem. Some of the affected schools were set up by development partners in agreement with the district to support the education of pupils from refugee settlements.

The report commonly referred to as NAPE is aimed at establishing the levels of learners’ and teacher’s achievement in numeracy and literacy in English against factors such as gender, school ownership and location.

The school will be constructed at Kihorezo Playground in Nyakagabagaba parish. The project that will be completed in the next two years involves the construction of a two-classroom block, 2-unit science laboratories, administration block, 2-unit teacher's house, a Multi-purpose hall, Computer laboratory, water reservoir tanks and a playground among others.

During the 30th Joint Admission Board [JAB] Exercise that commenced at Makerere University in Kampala on Tuesday, several stakeholders called for harmonization of the requirements to enable students who join from primary seven for certificate level upgrade to diploma.