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Enabel shares Education Innovations at Educaid Conference - Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 21-10-2021
2020-2021 will be remembered as a period when the world was confronted with the COVID-19 pandemic. For most of the world, economies were completely disrupted and learning institutions closed due to the lockdown. In Uganda, over 15 million learners lost contact with schools and for many, alternative...
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Celebrating Teachers’ Efforts Towards Education Recovery in Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 21-10-2021
International Teachers day was on 5th October 2021 and with it a reminder that for nearly two years the education system across the world is still facing significant challenges caused by the disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic. As this year’s theme was ‘Teachers at the heart of Education recovery...
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Using Renewable Energy to Support Teaching and Learning in Uganda
Dorothy KYAMAZIMA | 21-10-2021
The expansion of renewable energy across the world goes beyond the provision of reliable energy and climate protection, it ensures that people are provided with sustainable energy for important basic needs and services such as safe drinking water, safe electrified environments and conducive...
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Enabel fast tracks a digital response to Results-Based Management in Teacher Colleges – Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 20-10-2021
Results-Based Management (RBM), a process that involves participatory planning, collaborative implementation, transparent accountability and, monitoring and evaluating planned activities was first introduced in the National Teachers’ Colleges (NTCs) in 2017. This was done with the purpose of enabling...
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NTCs tap into renewable energy resources - Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 04-10-2021
Renewable energy is an important piece of the puzzle in meeting the growing energy demands and mitigating climate change. The increase in human population and rising levels of consumption have elevated energy demand, placing increasing burdens on the environment, particularly on global climate. ...
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Reimagining Learning Spaces in the National Teachers’ Colleges - Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 16-09-2021
In the National Teachers’ Colleges (NTCs) of Uganda, Enabel and the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) through its Teacher Training Education project (TTE) have been working to strengthen professional competencies of teacher trainers and future teachers graduating from the National Teachers...
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NTC Lecturers Ready to Design Online Courses - Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 03-09-2021
John Dewey, one of the influential minds behind education progressive reforms once said, “If we teach today’s students as we taught them yesterday, we rob them of tomorrow.” This statement is relevant in Uganda’s context today as we have experienced a paradigm...
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National Teachers’ Colleges Embrace E-learning - Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 02-09-2021
Ministry of Education and Sports recently drafted its 2022-2026 Digital Education Agenda to leverage the utilization of ICT in education. This digital strategy serves to develop an integrated direction in which ICT shall facilitate teaching, learning, and management of service...
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National Teachers’ Colleges Step into the Digital Era - Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 02-09-2021
The COVID-19 pandemic caused major difficulties on the education system worldwide leading to the closure of schools to curb the spread of the virus. In Uganda alone, schools were closed twice (in 2020 and 2021) interrupting learning for about 15 million students nationwide. Because of this, the ...
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Enabel’s First Online Teachers’ Course Gains Popularity in Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 11-08-2021
Online courses are a rapid growing trend in today’s education. There is some skepticism as to whether online courses are just as effective and educational as traditional face to face interactions with an instructor. However, with the current COVID-19 pandemic, distance learning has become inevitable...
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Hacking Our Way to Hybrid Education in the NTCs - Uganda
Peace NERIMA | 27-07-2021
Motivating, co-creative and educational are some of the words participants used to describe the 2nd EduHack that the TTE project launched in May and June 2021 to consolidate and strengthen practices of academic management by Teacher trainers in the 5 National Teacher’s Colleges (NTCs). The series...
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Zombo residents celebrate restoration of x-ray services
William YEKA | 13-07-2021
Expectant mothers in Zombo and surrounding areas can now breathe a shy of relief following the reinstatement of the Imaging Unit at Holy Family Hospital Nyapea. The unit was closed by the Atomic Energy Council of Uganda in 2015 over failure to meet basic minimum standards. &...
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The Support to Skilling Uganda Initiative
William YEKA | 31-05-2021
The Support to Skilling Uganda initiative jointly implemented by Enabel and the Ministry of Education addresses youth unemployment by enhancing the quality of skills training through innovative approaches including work-based learning. To date, about 12,000 people including refugees have been skilled...
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Uganda: Karamoja vocational schools upgraded
William YEKA | 06-05-2021
Vocational education in Karamoja region has received a boost. The Minister of State for Higher Education John Chrysostom Muyingo has today in Nakapiripirit commissioned new infrastructure worth 5.7 billion shillings. These include multi-million state of the art workshops and an assortment...
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Uganda: Ugandan governement and Belgium commission shs. 8.5 billion in VTI infrastructure
William YEKA | 19-03-2021
Government has today commissioned shs. 8.5 billion infrastructure at Kasese Youth Polytechnic and St. Joseph’s Technical Institute Virika in Kabarole District. The facilities commissioned by the Minister of State for Higher Education Dr. John Chrysostom Muyingo include fully furnished workshops...