{"id":29286,"date":"2022-04-07T16:19:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/chinese-language-teachers-to-be-put-on-govt-payroll-ncdc"},"modified":"2022-04-07T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:34:45","slug":"chinese-language-teachers-to-be-put-on-govt-payroll-ncdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/chinese-language-teachers-to-be-put-on-govt-payroll-ncdc","title":{"rendered":"Chinese language teachers to be put on govt payroll – NCDC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Chinese language teachers are to be put on the government pay roll in a bid to support them and encourage more to take up teaching the language in lower secondary schools, the director National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), Ms Grace Baguma, has revealed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe curriculum taps into emerging issues today and why we need Chinese. We had to write a lot of defense documents on why we need Chinese language; we wrote and everybody understood and we had to start it. I know we have it in a few schools but now I like the effort of putting the Chinese teachers on the payroll as we roll out the language,because it\u2019s a language and we need teachers to teach it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

However, Ms Baguma who made the remarks while launching a nine-month diploma in-service teacher training of the fourth cohort of 40 teachers in Chinese language at Luyanzi Institute of Technology in Kampala on Tuesday did not reveal when the teachers would start getting paid.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally when you introduce a new subject on the curriculum, you train teachers on how to teach that subject. The training will prepare them to teach the Chinese language in the lower secondary curriculum which now has five foreign languages, including Chinese,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Ms Baguma said NCDC \u201cplans to adopt\u201d a Chinese expert at the ministry in order to make the teaching of Chinese language sustainable across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina is one of the emerging economies and we are doing a lot as a country with china. You need to be multilingual, it helps in development which the world is requiring today. When you have more than one language you\u2019re at an advantage of belonging to the globe,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The director basic and secondary education at NCDC, Mr Ismael Mulindwa said the Chinese language has become an important factor that can\u2019t be ignored in the developing industrial world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why the ministry of education and sports wholeheartedly embraced it and added it to the curriculum of the lower secondary. We don\u2019t have any other option other than training those who are going to implement the program that Uganda has embraced,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Mulindwa said the ministry has expressed its self in recruiting teachers of Chinese, which will help popularise the teaching in lower schools and give an opportunity to the Chinese teachers to get on the government pay roll.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking at continuing it with A-level. We have developed a draft but are yet to present it to the council for approval. We are doing groundwork on revising the whole A- level curriculum, we have done an assessment and we think we shall present it as one of the languages taught so that we can tap into the diploma and degree\u2019s at tertiary level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The director general Luyanzi institute of technology, Ms Wang Li Hong said the Chinese teaching programme will promote the sharing of cultures between Uganda and China.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince signing a memorandum of incorporation with Confucius Institute at Makerere University in 2015, we created a great link with our institute that is helping us teach the Chinese language to Ugandans,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The deputy director Luyanzi institute Mr Ayub Sooma said the programme which has so far passed out 98 Chinese language teachers that are distributed in 60 schools across the country will help the ministry of education and sports to teach the Chinese language across the country in secondary schools that will strengthen the bilateral ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n

When contacted on the issue of putting Chinese language teachers on payroll, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Education, Dr Denis Mugimba said he was not yet aware of such arrangements.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not sure about that. For the teachers to be hired they need to be trained. Ugandan teachers and that priority has to be cleared by the ministry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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