The request was made by Dan Odongo, Executive Secretary UNEB while appearing before Parliament’s Budget Committee to defend the supplementary budget request.
Odongo defended the supplementary funding arguing that before the pandemic, the Board required spacing of 1.2 meters but this distance has to be adjusted to 2m meters to conform with the SOPs, a development that would require more invigilators to cover the additional rooms to be used.
For Primary Leaving Examinations that will be conducted in 2 days, UNEB plans to hire additional 19,910 invigilators with each fetching Shs48,500 bringing the total to Shs1.931 billion.
In Uganda Certificate Examinations, UNEB plans to hire additional 8,703 and each would be paid Shs48,500 bringing total to Shs5.909 billion while UACE will need 4,747 invigilators to oversee average 10days of examinations at a cost of Shs2.302 billion.
Daily Monitor
Thursday February 04 2021
The education sector has been reeling since the forced shutdown of schools in March last year when the first cases of Covid-19 were registered in Uganda.
Government schools and institutions of higher learning have been partially shielded from the scourge because payroll kept coming, but the situation in private schools was worse as many schools (big and small) shed their payroll, leaving teachers without any resort, or assistance.
Scene of the day everywhere in the country is the same - quite humanising. Young children in the village telling you: “We stopped going to school.”
There is a district bursary grantee in my district about to start A-Level after topping the region in Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) and O-Level, supplying me with fish as he waits for his school to reopen so he can start A-Level.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 03 2021
Senior Four candidates of Main Street Primary School in Jinja City attend class on November 17, 2020. PHOTO /FILE.
Summary
The Cabinet decision does not give the reopening date and has sparked more confusion on whether the allowed students are reporting as candidates.
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Cabinet has given the green light to schools to reopen for sub-candidate classes nearly a year after they were closed following the coronavirus outbreak.
The latest decision by Cabinet is contrary to the earlier proposal by the Ministry of Education to fully reopen academic institutions.
Their counterparts at the Health ministry and National Covid-19 Taskforce opposed the Education ministry’s position.
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