Two months into the school’s first academic term, some secondary schools have not yet received instructional materials that are crucial in the new lower secondary curriculum, the Daily Monitor has established.
A snap survey of schools across the country reveals that some teachers are still using the old syllabus for Senior Three class.
The lower secondary curriculum was launched in January 2020 despite resistance from parliamentarians and other stakeholders. They argued that the government was still ill-prepared to implement the curriculum as it lacked the required learning materials and staff. The advent of Covid-19 partly affected the implementation of the curriculum, forcing learners to stay away from school for close to two years.
Mr Wilson Byamukama, the head teacher of Ntungamo High School, says the schools’ lack of a unified direction has hampered the proper implementation of the curriculum.
“Teams of the Ministry [of Education] have been coming to assess the teaching and learning and several meetings have been held. We hope something will be done, but we are late,’’ he says.
Mr Godfrey Birungi, the head teacher of Mbarara Secondary School, says: “We bought a few copies for all subjects of Senior Three as we wait for the ministry to send us more books, but they are not forthcoming.”
