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Enabel supports 3500 students in Uganda to graduate during the Covid-19 pandemic
Peace NERIMA | 06-06-2023
In 2021, the Ministry of Education and Sports launched an Emergency Response Plan (ERP) for School Practice (SP) in the five National Teacher's Colleges (NTCs) to allow three cohorts of students (2019, 2020, and 2021) to graduate while the COVID-19 epidemic was still in effect. The graduation of ...
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In Uganda, academic management system is simplifying student assessment
Peace NERIMA | 01-06-2023
School Practice is a learning process that requires prospective teachers to acquire practical teaching experience in a classroom. The school practice process involves students presenting and showcasing their teaching skills under the supervision of teacher trainers. Here, they showcase instructional...
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Academic Management System Innovation Supports School Practice in Uganda
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 17-05-2023
For many years, the National Teachers Colleges (NTCs) have faced challenges with record keeping and managing college activities. College data was often lacking or inaccessible. Today, Colleges are using in-house Academic Management software that is improving their digital capacity to manage college...
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Students Benefit from Uganda' Emergency Education Response Plan
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 17-05-2023
Isaac Amanya is one of the more than 3500 in-service teacher trainers who have benefited from the education Emergency Response Plan in National Teachers’ Colleges implemented by Enabel and the Ministry of Education and Sports during the COVID-19 pandemic.For more click here: ➡️ https://bit...
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Uganda's Education Response Plan for Teachers' Colleges
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 17-05-2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic education across the globe came to a stand still. The effects of this were far reaching and rural areas were hit hardest due to underlying disparities. However, from this education crisis rose the opportunity to enact an emergency response plan that would fast ...
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Uganda: Digitizing School Practice
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 17-05-2023
National Teachers’ Colleges have made strides in adapting digital technologies in the Teaching and learning process. Colleges now simplify the school practice process using an inbuilt academic management system. Click here for more: ➡️https://bit.ly/3Bzx7mq
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Digital technologies taking education in Uganda to the next level
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 21-03-2023
“Before the introduction of Time-on-task, staff absenteeism rate was very high because as management, we did not have a strong system in place to monitor staff.” Evelyn Lanyero Principal NTC Kaliro. This simple tool has registered an enormous impact. Since its introduction in May 2019, more and...
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In Uganda, Enabel launches the very first online general teaching methods course
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 21-03-2023
In November 2020, Enabel launched an online General Teaching Methods (GTM) course for lower-secondary pre- and in-service teachers in Uganda, the very first of its kind. This professional course provides interactive and practical lessons to improve teaching practices for all teachers...
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Technology enhanced learning taking shape in Uganda
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 21-03-2023
The Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) course was developed by Digital Education Heroes of the Teacher Training Education Project, a project implemented by Enabel and the Ministry of Education and Sports in Uganda. This course equips teachers in National Teachers’ Colleges with 21st-century...
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Teachers benefit from the TTE Sandbox in Uganda
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 21-03-2023
The TTE Sandbox is a testing ground for Educational Technology (EdTech) and was co-created with Enabel, the Ministry of Education and the 5 National Teachers’ Colleges (NTCs) in Uganda. The award-winning innovation has answered the needs that arose from the closure of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Uganda: Digitizing Education Management
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 22-02-2023
For many years, the National Teachers Colleges (NTCs) have faced challenges with record keeping and managing college activities. College data was often lacking or inaccessible. Today, Colleges are using an in-house Academic Management software that is improving their digital capacity to manage...
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Uganda: NTC Kabale's Digital Hub Takes Shape
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 22-02-2023
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: Onen quit a Sh.200,000 job to acquire vocational skills and becoming self-employed"
Catherine BEKUNDA | 20-02-2023
It is said that better the devil you know than the angel you do not know.But Godwill Onen took the risk of meeting the unknown angel in the hopes that it would be an angel of good fortune and prosperity. He has not been let down.Onen is 26 years old and stopped in senior two in 2016.He is from Lotuke...
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Uganda: When a training course is a second chance at life
Catherine BEKUNDA | 20-02-2023
Lance Armstrong once said, "If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you have to go all the way."The words ring true for Sarah Angom, who sees the opportunity to study fashion design as a second chance.Angom became pregnant during her senior four vacation, and as fate would have it, she...
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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 an ...