The establishment of the Uganda National Institute for Teacher Education (UNITE) takes effect in July this year.
The changes that are intended to phase out non-graduate teachers in the system are on course and will see the phasing out of all Primary teachers’ Colleges.
Preparations are in high gear at Shimoni Core Primary Teachers College that is being repurposed to become the Uganda National Institute for Teacher Education (UNITE) in July next financial year.
The task force that was put in place to establish UNITE has already submitted Education programs to National Council for Higher Education for certification.
The NCHE has already done the inspection and verification of the infrastructure at the headquarters and all the five national teachers’ colleges that are going to become UNITE campuses.
Rev. Fr. Adrian Katarikawe the Public Relations Officer UNITE task Force secretariat said they are ready on their part and only waiting for other processes that are handled by different officers.
The five UNITE campuses are the current teachers’ colleges of Muni, Kaliro, Kabale, Unyama and Mubende.
Currently the government has 46 PTCs and out of these 23 are non-core and the government intends to repurpose them to either become Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), secondary or primary school but following the principles.
This means Teachers with Grade III and Grade V qualifications have up to August 2028 to upgrade and become graduate teachers to fit into the new arrangement.
