{UAH} EDUCATION IN ANKOLE: Ntare School (The Lion of excellence)
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EDUCATION IN ANKOLE: Ntare School (The Lion of excellence)
When the colonial government decided to start government owned schools in the 1950s, in Ankole district, it approached the kingdom to get its blessing and to capitalize on their backing to recruit students. The kingdom officials decided to name the school after one of the great kings of Ankole-Ntare V. Ntare is vernacular for a lion in Runyakitara.
To Ntare, the name also came to symbolise more than just an adored king but also the qualities and virtues of the King of the Jungle, amiable, courageous, brave and fierce. It's statue was placed at the heart of the institution in an enclosure the students now call 'The Lion's Empire' with a mould of a book in front.
Perhaps inspired by lion attributes, the old boys have exhibited braveness, courage and fierceness in their life endeavors. Ntare is one of the first three government founded secondary schools in the country, the earlier ones having been founded by missionaries. The other two are Sir Samuel Baker in Northern Uganda and Teso College Aloet in Eastern Uganda.
The boarding boys' only school sitting on Kamukuzi hill facing the central business area of Mbarara municipality started in 1956 by late William Crichton as its first headteacher.
A Scottish national, Crichton had also served in south Sudan as a teacher, deputy head teacher, inspector of schools and headmaster. The school started from the facilities which belonged to a government teacher training college that had been moved to Kyambogo.
Ntare started with 60 students in senior one and two for students joining from junior secondary two and junior secondary three respectively. It had a handful of white teachers, one classroom block, a dining hall and two dormitories.
Surprisingly, the results of Cambridge Certificate Examinations for the pioneers of Ntare School in 1958 were the best in the whole country, which set a foundation of excellent performance in both science and arts that has lived up to today.
As if fulfilling the dream of the founders, Ntare products have from time to time occupied key positions in politics, civil service and academia in the post independence and contemporary Uganda to enviable position of being the only school that has produced two Presidents serving at the same time in Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda's Paul Kagame.
The school has old boys' reunion where current students get opportunity to interact and share on the knowledge of the successful old boys. The famous reunion was the one of October 2000 where Presidents Museveni and Kagame played foot ball together with other alumni. But Mr Museveni left prematurely after learning that Dr Besigye has announced he would contest for the presidency in 2001.
Notable Alumni include;
- YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI - President of Uganda
- PAUL KAGAME - President of Rwanda
- AMAMA MBABAZI - Former Prime Minister
- EPHRAIM KAMUNTU - Minister
- JOHN NASASIRA - Former Minister
- ERIYA KATEGAYA (Rip) - Former Minister
- ELIODA TUMWESIGYE - Minister
- TARSIS KABWEGYERE - Former Minister
- JAMES MUGIRA - General in UPDF
- NOBLE MAYOMBO (Rip) - Military Officer
- DANIEL KIDEGA - Speaker, EAC
- JOHN MUSINGUZI RUJOKI - Commissioner General, URA
- FRED RUHINDI - Former Mp
- OMWONY OJOK (Rip) - Former Minister
- SERAPIO RUKUNDO - Former Minister
- JAMES NSABA BUTURO - Former Minister
- RICHARD NDUHURA - International Diplomat
- STEPHEN MALINGA (Rip) - Minister
- PATRICK MAZIMHAKA (Rip) - Former Minister
- ELLY KATUNGUKA - Professor
- LIVINGSTONE LUBOOBI - Professor
- SAMUEL KARUGIRE (Rip) - Professor
- STANLEY TUMWINE - Professor
- JOTHAM TUMWESIGYE - Supreme Court Judge
- FRANCIS BUTAGIRA - Diplomat
- TUMUSIIME RUSHEDGE - Author
- ARTHUR GAKWANDI - Author
Among others.EAC
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When the colonial government decided to start government owned schools in the 1950s, in Ankole district, it approached the kingdom to get its blessing and to capitalize on their backing to recruit students. The kingdom officials decided to name the school after one of the great kings of Ankole-Ntare V. Ntare is vernacular for a lion in Runyakitara.
To Ntare, the name also came to symbolise more than just an adored king but also the qualities and virtues of the King of the Jungle, amiable, courageous, brave and fierce. It's statue was placed at the heart of the institution in an enclosure the students now call 'The Lion's Empire' with a mould of a book in front.
Perhaps inspired by lion attributes, the old boys have exhibited braveness, courage and fierceness in their life endeavors. Ntare is one of the first three government founded secondary schools in the country, the earlier ones having been founded by missionaries. The other two are Sir Samuel Baker in Northern Uganda and Teso College Aloet in Eastern Uganda.
The boarding boys' only school sitting on Kamukuzi hill facing the central business area of Mbarara municipality started in 1956 by late William Crichton as its first headteacher.
A Scottish national, Crichton had also served in south Sudan as a teacher, deputy head teacher, inspector of schools and headmaster. The school started from the facilities which belonged to a government teacher training college that had been moved to Kyambogo.
Ntare started with 60 students in senior one and two for students joining from junior secondary two and junior secondary three respectively. It had a handful of white teachers, one classroom block, a dining hall and two dormitories.
Surprisingly, the results of Cambridge Certificate Examinations for the pioneers of Ntare School in 1958 were the best in the whole country, which set a foundation of excellent performance in both science and arts that has lived up to today.
As if fulfilling the dream of the founders, Ntare products have from time to time occupied key positions in politics, civil service and academia in the post independence and contemporary Uganda to enviable position of being the only school that has produced two Presidents serving at the same time in Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda's Paul Kagame.
The school has old boys' reunion where current students get opportunity to interact and share on the knowledge of the successful old boys. The famous reunion was the one of October 2000 where Presidents Museveni and Kagame played foot ball together with other alumni. But Mr Museveni left prematurely after learning that Dr Besigye has announced he would contest for the presidency in 2001.
Notable Alumni include;
- YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI - President of Uganda
- PAUL KAGAME - President of Rwanda
- AMAMA MBABAZI - Former Prime Minister
- EPHRAIM KAMUNTU - Minister
- JOHN NASASIRA - Former Minister
- ERIYA KATEGAYA (Rip) - Former Minister
- ELIODA TUMWESIGYE - Minister
- TARSIS KABWEGYERE - Former Minister
- JAMES MUGIRA - General in UPDF
- NOBLE MAYOMBO (Rip) - Military Officer
- DANIEL KIDEGA - Speaker, EAC
- JOHN MUSINGUZI RUJOKI - Commissioner General, URA
- FRED RUHINDI - Former Mp
- OMWONY OJOK (Rip) - Former Minister
- SERAPIO RUKUNDO - Former Minister
- JAMES NSABA BUTURO - Former Minister
- RICHARD NDUHURA - International Diplomat
- STEPHEN MALINGA (Rip) - Minister
- PATRICK MAZIMHAKA (Rip) - Former Minister
- ELLY KATUNGUKA - Professor
- LIVINGSTONE LUBOOBI - Professor
- SAMUEL KARUGIRE (Rip) - Professor
- STANLEY TUMWINE - Professor
- JOTHAM TUMWESIGYE - Supreme Court Judge
- FRANCIS BUTAGIRA - Diplomat
- TUMUSIIME RUSHEDGE - Author
- ARTHUR GAKWANDI - Author
Among others.EAC
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