The State Minister for Primary Education, Ms Joyce Kaducu, has said the government is planning to recruit a total of 78,888 primary teachers to fill the teacher- pupil ratio gap in the Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools.
Addressing journalists at the Uganda Media Centre yesterday, MsKaducu said the decision follows a Cabinet approval to enforce the principles of quality free and compulsory UPE and Universal Secondary Education (USE) beginning financial year 2024/2025 and ensuring teacher to learner ratio of 1:40.
She noted that currently, the country has a total of 12,433 UPE schools, with 136,819 teachers teaching 8,624,264 learners in these institutions.
After the recruitment, the number of primary school teachers in UPE schools will rise to 215,707, which will eventually reduce the teacher-to-learner ratio gap.
MsKaducu also revealed that the government will also establish a UPE school in each of the 1,617 parishes/wards without government primary schools, which will bring the total of UPE schools in the country to 14,050.
Kaducu also revealed that the government will also construct a USE school in each of the 350 sub-counties that currently don’t have one.
