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Uganda: NTC Kabale's Digital Hub Takes Shape
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 02-02-2023
It has been quite the journey for NTC Kabale to actualize the first digital hub in the National Teachers’ Colleges. Since the benchmarking exercise in July last year, the team of digital ninjas has finally established an ideal centre that will promote innovation in teaching and learning and provide...
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Uganda: ICT Device Scheme launched in the National Teachers’ Colleges
Peace NERIMA | 01-02-2023
To enhance the quality of secondary teacher education, there is a need to use Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) tools, digital educational resources and the Learning Management System (Moodle LMS) within the National Teachers’ Colleges (NTCs). Enabel, through the TTE project, last year launched...
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Using digital technologies to solve educational challenges in Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 24-01-2023
For many years, the National Teachers Colleges (NTCs) faced challenges with record keeping and managing college activities. College data was often lacking or inaccessible. Information regarding student admissions, staff and student registration, inventory management and student results was often...
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EU & Enabel awards UGX 4.6 billion grant to skill refugees and host communities and brings EU Photo Exhibition to Arua
William YEKA | 01-12-2022
The European Union under the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa has today awarded three organisations grants totaling to 4.6 billion shillings to skill refugees and host communities in West Nile & Kiryadongo. Recipients include; Edukans Education Services, Windle International and...
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The TTE Sandbox Innovation in Uganda
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 22-11-2022
A booklet detailing the digital journey of the TTE Sandbox and Enabel's journey in creating digital solutions to improve teacher training in Uganda. Click here for more on the Sandbox innovation: https://padlet.com/TeacherTrainingUganda/KMBoardTTE/wish/2393683455
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Uganda: House help turned entrepreneur
Catherine BEKUNDA | 17-11-2022
There is a common adage; “your dreams are valid”. This applies to Jenipher Masika who since childhood aspired to become a hair dresser. She had always been amazed by the transformation women experienced after visiting a salon. Born 26 years ago in Karambi Sub- County in Kasese District...
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Uganda: Skills development secures Kizza’s future
Catherine BEKUNDA | 17-11-2022
It is a sunlit mid-morning in Kisaka II Village, Bwera Sub-County, Kasese district in Western Uganda. Kasese is few kilometers away from the Uganda - Democratic Republic of Congo border. Cross border business is common in this part of the country so the area is busy. Alfred Kizza and his...
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NTCs celebrate Milestones in the Transformation of Teacher Education in Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 03-11-2022
Every year on 5th October, Teacher Day is celebrated globally to recognize and appreciate teachers, teacher trainers and stakeholders in the teaching profession. This year, the same was done on 12th October at NTC Muni to mark the anniversary of the 1966 ILO UNESCO Recommendation concerning...
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Enabel Breaks Ground for Construction works in NTC Mubende and Kabale - Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 03-11-2022
Enabel, through the Teacher Training Education (TTE) Project, seeks to improve the environment in which students learn and staff work by constructing environmentally friendly and gender-responsive infrastructure to meet today’s current needs.With funding from the Belgian government, the project...
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Elevating Gender and ICT in Teaching and Learning in Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 03-11-2022
The 2019 National Teachers’ Policy (NTP) emphasises the government’s position on ensuring gender equality within schools and the incorporation of ICT in teaching and learning since the reform of the lower secondary school curriculum. This is in line with the government white paper 1992, which recognises...
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'Technophobia' in Ugandan Education Sector Overcome Thanks to Corona Lockdown
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 03-11-2022
During the corona pandemic, schools in Uganda were closed for almost two years. A small - Belgian - innovation to be able to continue to communicate eventually led to a digital revolution in Ugandan teacher training. Before the outbreak of Covid-19, an education official in the...
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In Uganda, Enabel boosts Acholi region Blood Bank collect over 800 blood units
Agnes KABAIKYA | 21-10-2022
Fred is a senior six candidate at Reverend Jabuloni Isoke Secondary School in Kitgum district, northern Uganda waiting to sit his final exams. Despite his busy schedule, Fred will always get time to donate blood because of his childhood experience. This is his fifth time to donate. Fred says...
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Innovation Booklet TTE Project Uganda
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 11-10-2022
A booklet about the Teacher Training Education (TTE) project innovations and successes in the National Teachers' Colleges in Uganda. Click here: https://bit.ly/3Vd7iRX
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Early Childhood Development Centres in Uganda
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 05-10-2022
Over the project's lifetime, we have realised the need to support students and teachers in attaining further education while balancing their roles as new parents. We have established an Early Childhood Development (ECD) centre in each college to ensure that staff and students work or pursue their studies...
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Uganda: Regional maintenance team builds capacity of health workers at lower health facilities
Agnes KABAIKYA | 29-09-2022
For a health facility to provide all-round quality services, they should have in place the right equipment functioning optimally. For this reason, to promote appropriate use, regular repair is critical to increase lifespan, decrease break downs as well as reduce losses and wastages. The Regional...