The Ministry of Education and Sports has revealed that so far over 250 master trainers have been recruited to traverse the country, re-orienting teachers about the new curriculum.
To enable teachers prepare for teaching upon reopening, the Ministry of Education introduced an abridged curriculum to speed up the learning process by allowing learners to complete the work that they should have covered in the previous and current academic years in a shortened time frame.
Dr. Dennis K. Mugimba the Spokesperson for the Ministry of Education & Sports explains that this only affects learners in continuing classes not entry classes like P.1, S.1 and S.5.
He says they will use the first two weeks of the re-opening to assess the numbers of both teachers and learners who would have returned for school to decide on a better way forward.
According to Grace Baguma, the Executive Director of the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), the curriculum is out, and will be published on relevant websites for teachers to easily access it.
Mugimba said the Ministry of Education and Sports is to distribute six million new curriculum textbooks to 5,502 secondary schools in Uganda.
He said all registered private and government aided secondary schools are to benefit from these textbooks.
Out of the 5,502 secondary schools that will receive the textbooks, 3,956 are private schools and the rest are government and community schools.
