The government has said it is not able to finance private schools’ recovery from pandemic-induced shocks.
The revelation, which will come as a big blow to the proprietors of private schools, was revealed by the State minister for Primary Education, Dr Joyce Moriku Kaducu as she and her team appeared before Parliament’s Committee on Education yesterday.
Edward Sebukyu, the commissioner of private schools at the Education ministry, said they do not have the capacity to rescue constrained private education institutions.
Since President Museveni announced that the academic institutions will fully reopen in January next year, stakeholders in the education sector have periodically sought government support to facilitate their reopening.
Proprietors of private schools for one reasoned that the funds, once availed, will be committed to pay teachers, partly waive arrears, and also procure hand sanitizers.
On October 20th, the Uganda Bankers Association asked the government to establish a medium term recovery of $300m (Shs1.06 trillion) to enable private schools to adequately prepare for the reopening.
A week earlier, the proprietors of private schools had asked the government to set up a relief fund of at least Shs500b to enable them to smoothly prepare for the reopening.
