The Ministry of Education and Sports has bowed to pressure and released part of the capitation grant for all government-aided schools to ready them ahead of reopening in January.
Heads of government-aided schools have been pushing the government to release the grants to refurbish schools that have fallen into sorry state following their closure four months back.
The Commissioner for Secondary Education, Sam Kuloba, said the funds should be used to buy instructional materials, slash bushy compounds, and cater for other administrative costs.
Kuloba added that they are going to follow up with the CAOs to ensure this money is released to school accounts as soon as possible.
Kuloba said the balance will be sent to school accounts when all educational institutions reopen next year.
The Secretary-General of Uganda National Teachers Union, Filbert Baguma, during the Teacher’s Day celebration at Kololo in Kampala this month, informed the government that most schools had become busy and dirty because there was no money for their maintenance during the lockdown.
The chairperson of the Secondary Schools Head teachers Association, Martin Okiria Obore, asked the government to bail out some private schools with some capitation grants to prepare for reopening.
He said the majority of these have gone without any school fees from parents, hence do not have funds to enable them to reopen safely.
