The Ministry of Education and Sports will starting this academic year roll out the new lower secondary school curriculum. It is to be implemented in a gradual manner starting with students joining senior one until the old curriculum is phased out. The new curriculum has come up with changes such as reducing the number of…
John making a beehive at their training site in zone 2, Imvepi settlement It is a hot January afternoon in Imvepi refugee settlement in Arua district, home to almost 80,000 South Sudanese refugees. Twenty-year-old Alison John and his fellow students, both refugees and locals, are busy making beehives out of timber. Even as they are…
Members of Manjoora Women’s Group In 2016, when conflict broke out again in her country South Sudan, Josephine decided she had to escape. After a long journey she arrived at Bidibidi refugee settlement in Northern Uganda. Her situation shortly after changed when Enabel, the Belgian development agency, came into the settlement. The organization helped Josephine…
Harnicah competing at World Skills Africa in Kigali, Rwanda Nineteen-year-old Harnicah Mpologomy from Uganda smiled as she walked onto the stage of Kigali Convention Centre. She had just won a silver medal in bricklaying and concrete practice at the World Skills Africa Competition. Harnicah caught everybody’s attention when she displayed her skills. People were surprised…
EXCITING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES About us: Straight Talk Foundation (STF) is a health communications National Non Governmental Organisation that was founded in 1993. STF exists to empower adolescents and adults to achieve lives of dignity by triggering and driving authentic dialogue that leads to reflection, problem solving and concrete action for greater sexual, economic and environmental…
School enrollment has steadily grown over the years in Uganda. Whereas this should be celebrated, concerns have been raised by employers about the quality of personnel produced by this education system. Often, employers complain that graduates lack basic professional skills after completing studies. This compels them to provide additional training to enable them acquire the…
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When the First Lady Janet Museveni, in her capacity as education minister called the media to advise parents about among others, not to transport their kids to school on Boda Boda’s, or if they should, not more than two on one bike, no one dared to respond to her…
Uganda’s population stands at 34.6 million people according to the 2014 census. 55% equivalent to 19 million are children below 18years. Only Niger has a younger population in the world than Uganda. This puts the pearl of Africa in two situations with one more likely to happen in the foreseeable future. Firstly, Uganda could be…
Margaret Muhanga is the Member of Parliament representing Burahya County in Kabarole District. The legislator was on Tuesday, 2nd August grilled by colleagues over a plot of land originally owned by the state company, Uganda Broadcasting Cooperation (UBC). Her predicament that attracted immense social media outrage arose when a parliamentary committee unearthed circumstances related to…
The Kenyan government last week deported celebrated Congolese musician Koffi Olomide for kicking one of his female dancers at Jomo Kenyatta International airport. Apparently, the victim had an altercation with the musician’s wife leading to his outburst. Regardless of the reason, Koffi who is famous globally for his astounding music should not have done what…
The New Vision dated Tuesday, July 12, 2016 published a story titled, “MUSEVENI SPEAKS OUT ON SEX EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS.” The president while speaking at the national celebrations to commemorate World Population Day in Isingiro said sex education should not be taught in schools. He was quoted as saying “Do not engage in sex education. Sex…
The rate at which boda boda accidents are happening is so alarming that something drastic must be done. We have lately been recording a lot of deaths caused by boda bodas especially in Kampala. Just last week, a Makerere University Journalism student who completed her course in May perished after the motorcycle taking her to…
We live in a period dubbed the “information age.” This is a moment when success or failure in life is dependent on how much information one has. The digital revolution marked the beginning of this information era. The information age largely facilitated by digital revolution has altered the way many professions are run. Same is the case…
There is a saying that “hard work pays”. If you ever doubted it, Dr. Jose Chameleone is a living testimony. He started from zero, defied odds and made it to the top. Who is Jose Chameleone? Wikipedia reports that Chameleone, real name Joseph Mayanja was born on 30th April 1979 in Uganda. He is an…
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