Schools Shall Remain Closed

Highlights Schools shall remain closed, says Dr Muyingo. Government in consultations on the way forward. Covid-19 safety measures consideration may aid in reopening. All teachers to be vaccinated in readiness to resume teaching. The Minister for Higher education Dr John C. Muyingo has dismissed claims that schools are reopening in September. According to media reports, scRead More…

Schools in Iganga District

Top Schools in Iganga District 2020 UCE Results In Iganga District UCE 2020 Examinations Results, Iganga SS emerged the top secondary school with 90.57% pass rate from 212 candidates who sat the exams. The second place with 90.57% pass rate is St. Gonzaga Minor Seminary, Iganga. Greenfields High School, Iganga took position 3 to seal the top three best schools in Iganga district in the jusRead More…

School leaders need Retooling to reverse the negatively skewed UACE Results

Summary Exemplary performance in the Central region Rural-urban performance gap is wide The school dropout rate for girls is disturbingly high. Dismal parental engagement may be contributing to the observed poor performance Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) and the Ministry of Education and Sports released the 2020 Uganda Advanced Certificate of EducationRead More…

LIST: Best Performing schools in 2020 UACE Results

KAWA wishes to congratulate the top-performing Secondary schools on the recently released 2020 Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) results. In the list here we share all the schools with 20 points in the whole Country. Top on the list is Uganda Martyrs SS, Namugongo, Wakiso district with 33 candidates, St. Mary’s SS, Kitende with 32, Kings College, Budo with 17, and SeeRead More…

PSFU-NBS Television e-conference: In Support of Prof. Wasswa Balunywa on Education Reform in Uganda

I followed the views of Professor Waswa Balunywa, Principal of Makerere University Business School during the online NBS television e-conference organised by the Private Sector Foundation Uganda and the UN Women from May 3-4, 2020. This was among the first and enriching conferences during the Lockdown imposed by the government due to the Covid 19 Pandemic. Other speakers in the conference were BarRead More…

Using Social Media to enhance Learning in this Covid 19 Period

In this period, while learners are at home, those who have access to social media should not just spend time chatting and watching comedy from youtube. The learners should start by sharing different environmental photographs showing different scenes, discuss the economic activities taking place there, share the solutions to the challenges as well discussing strategies for better performance when Read More…

Uganda Communications Commission to Establish an Innovation Test-bed for Existing and Emerging Technologies.

According the UCC Website, the Uganda Communications Commission, plans to Establish an Innovation Test-bed for Existing and Emerging Technologies (5G, IoT, AI, ML/M2M, DLTs, IPV6, etc.). The Commission shall hold an online stakeholder consultation meeting for the same, on Thursday, May 7th 2020. The meeting will explore the setup & implementation of sustainable innovation test-beds that provRead More…

KAWA and Makerere University Business School to Launch an eLearning Platform

This innovation has developed as a collaborative initiative between KAWA, Association of Secondary Schools Head teachers of Uganda and Makerere University Business School as a quick response to the challnges brought by the closure of schools. The Corona Virus pandemic and the associated mitigation measures such as country wide lockdown has limited student’s access to education. Primary SchoolsRead More…