[UAH] Government to hire teachers for Kiswahili - National - monitor.co.ug

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The Ministry of Education has announced that plans to start importing Kiswahili teachers for the proposed schools curriculum will start towards the end of this year.

The announcement was made on Friday by Ms Jessica Alupo, the Education minister, at the closing of the MTN-Uganda's 21 days of Y'ello School Care at Kibuli Secondary School in Kampala.
Ms Alupo said: "This is something that has been planned and talked about for many years but we are effecting it soon; towards the end of this year."

She added that the government is not yet decided on the specific number of the first batch to bring in; but negotiations were on-going with Kenya and Tanzania, where Kiswahili is used as a language of instruction.

"We are still trying to study whether to put these teachers directly in our schools or place them in the teacher training institutions." 
In the 1992 government white paper on education policy review commission report titled 'Education For National Integration and Development', it was suggested that both Kiswahili and English be compulsory subjects throughout the primary cycle in both rural and urban areas.

However, implementation of the programme has been delayed by inadequate funding.

"We believe teaching the Kiswahili language will promote rapid and solid regional cooperation between Uganda and our neighbours," Ms Alupo said. "And that partly explains why we pushed the new O-Level curriculum to 2017 so we can implement all this."

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Government to hire teachers for Kiswahili - National - monitor.co.ug
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