{"id":629,"date":"2020-12-11T18:05:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/uganda\/?p=629"},"modified":"2020-12-11T18:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:05:17","slug":"govt-plans-to-construct-258-secondary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/govt-plans-to-construct-258-secondary-schools","title":{"rendered":"Govt plans to construct 258 secondary schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Government through the Education ministry has announced plans to construct 258 government secondary schools in sub-counties across the country that do not have any schools in the 2020\/2021 Financial Year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the closure of the Education Sector Review 2019\/2020 in Kampala yesterday, the ministry\u2019s permanent secretary, Mr Alex Kakooza, said of the 258 schools to be constructed, 115 will be financed by the funds Ugandan government received from the World Bank to fund the Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer (UgIFT).<\/p>\n<p>The PS explained that the remaining 116 schools will be constructed under Uganda Secondary School Expansion project whose funds he said have already been approved by the government. The 116 secondary schools include the 60 schools to be expanded in areas hosting refugees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government had resolved that all sub-counties across the country should have a government secondary. All the sub-counties that were in existence before 2015 have been catered for under the above arrangements. The funds to cater for the remaining 27 schools has also been earmarked and this means that all those sub-counties will be having schools,\u201d Mr Kakooza said.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said the government has not budgeted for the construction of schools in the new sub-counties that came into existence as a result of creation of new districts since 2015. He said students in the newly created districts will have to share schools with their mother districts.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education revealed that it is developing a plan to ensure a continuity of teacher-training during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner of teacher training at the Education ministry, Dr Jane Egua, said the training of teachers both in the National Teacher\u2019s Colleges and Primary Teacher Colleges is very critical to avoid gaps in schools in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministry of education with help from Unesco conducted a survey to establish whether teachers know how to use the online learning facilities and the government is going to base the findings to roll out an online learning,\u201d Dr Egua said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColleges teaching secondary teachers are ready to roll out the online teaching because they have all the necessities except Primary Teacher\u2019s Colleges which are not yet set. This is because the government hub to facilitate teaching in all Primary Teachers\u2019 Colleges had faults but they have been sorted,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how the ministry is handling Covid-19 cases in schools, Mr Kakooza said the government has set up a committee headed by the Ministry of Health to manage cases in schools and asked the public not to panic in the face of rising infections.editorial@ug.nationmedia.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Government through the Education ministry has announced plans to construct 258 government secondary schools in sub-counties across the country that do not have any schools in the 2020\/2021 Financial Year. 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