{UAH} Ministry drops 10 subjects including Kiswahili
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KAMPALA.
The government has dropped the teaching 10 secondary school subjects, including Kiswahili and others mainly in the practical areas, Daily Monitor has established.
To that effect, the Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has issued a circular indicating they will not be examining students this year in Fasihi ya Kiswahili, Political Education, Additional Mathematics, General Science, Health Education, Electricity and Electronics, Power and Energy, Shorthand, Type writing and Office Practice because their counterparts at National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) had phased them out on the secondary school curriculum.
Mr Dan Odongo, the Uneb executive secretary in a December letter to schools, wrote: "Reference is made to the circular dated June 15, 2015 informing all head teachers which offer the suspended subjects that Uneb would examine them for the last time in 2016."
Yesterday, Mr Odongo explained that they were responding to a circular they received from NCDC nearly three years ago informing them about the fate of the subjects.
"It's NCDC which decides what is on the curriculum and we only examine. When they tell us what is on the menu, there is no question about it, we follow the guidelines," Mr Odongo said yesterday.
But Mr Odongo said they had to wait until now to allow the students enrolled for the subjects sit their final examinations before the board could stop examining the subjects.
"We will not examine any student in these subjects in 2017," Mr Odongo said in an interview.
But the announcement has caught teachers of the subjects off-guard.
Mr Wilson Byamukama, the Ntungamo High School head teacher, yesterday said he was not aware of the development as his school has never received any communication from either authorities to that regard. His school has more than 70 students joining Senior Four this year and offering Kiswahili.
Ms Grace Baguma, the NCDC executive director, yesterday confirmed the development but declined to comment as she was on her annual leave. Her deputy, Ms Bernadette Nambi Karuhanga, also declined to explain the motive.
But officials within NCDC who preferred not to be named explained that some of the subjects, including Electricity and Electronics, Power and Energy, had duplicated content while others were dropped for political reasons. The others; Additional Mathematics, Short Hand and Office Practice, were dropped because they had few students and government could not waste resources in paying the teachers.
For Fayisa ya Kiswahili, which focuses on literature in Kiswahili was dropped while Luga ya Kiswahili that centres on grammar was retained.
It is not clear what happens to the teachers who have been teaching some of these subjects. However, Mr Patrick Muinda, the Education ministry's spokesperson, said: "A decision to reduce the number of subjects was taken, however, a stance on which subject to be dropped and why will only be known when a committee tasked to review the issue completes its assignment."
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