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  • Uganda is ready to roll out the new lower secondary school curriculum when schools reopen in January 2022
  • The government has recruited and deployed 1,598 staff in the newly completed seed secondary schools
  • Institutions of learning across Uganda have been closed since March 2020, following a directive by President Yoweri Museveni, in a bid to curb the spread of COVID-19

Uganda’s education sector is on course in rolling out the new lower secondary school curriculum when schools reopen in January 2022.

This is according to the Prime Minister and Leader of Government Business in Parliament, Robinah Nabbanja.

Nabbanja said the government has recruited and deployed 1,598 staff in the newly completed seed secondary schools under the Uganda Inter-governmental Fiscal Transfers Programme.

“The recruitment of the remaining 1,409 posts has also commenced and will be completed in this financial year 2021/2022,” said Nabbanja.

According to the premier, staffing and purchase of …