St Lawrance rewards star students with cars
Publication date: Monday, 13th March, 2006
| CONGS: Bitamazire hands over car keys to Muhangi as deputy director Michael Adoa looks on |
By Godfery Kimono
SUPRISE covered St. Lawrence London College on Saturday when the best students and their teachers received cars and cheques for sh110m.
The St. Lawrence schools were celebrating their good performance in the 2005 UCE and UACE results. Retired Bishop Sam Balagadde of Namirembe Cathedral led prayers at the function at the Victory Stadium.
The three best performing students, Raymond Muhangi, with 24 points (PCB/E), Raymond Musiime, 24 points (HED/A) and Maureen Kimane also with 24 points (LED/K), received Toyota saloon cars of Celica, Carina and Corsa models respectively. They were also given cheques.
Three other cars, comprising two Toyotas and a Mitsubishi, were given to the teachers of the three star students.
A cheque for sh41m was given to teachers for their hard work.
The principal, Lawrence Mukiibi, said the car awards would encourage other students and teachers to work hard since the awards are to be given out on an annual basis.
Education minister Namirembe Bitamazire commended Mukiibi for having invested his wealth to uplift the education standards of the country.
SUPRISE covered St. Lawrence London College on Saturday when the best students and their teachers received cars and cheques for sh110m.
The St. Lawrence schools were celebrating their good performance in the 2005 UCE and UACE results. Retired Bishop Sam Balagadde of Namirembe Cathedral led prayers at the function at the Victory Stadium.
The three best performing students, Raymond Muhangi, with 24 points (PCB/E), Raymond Musiime, 24 points (HED/A) and Maureen Kimane also with 24 points (LED/K), received Toyota saloon cars of Celica, Carina and Corsa models respectively. They were also given cheques.
Three other cars, comprising two Toyotas and a Mitsubishi, were given to the teachers of the three star students.
A cheque for sh41m was given to teachers for their hard work.
The principal, Lawrence Mukiibi, said the car awards would encourage other students and teachers to work hard since the awards are to be given out on an annual basis.
Education minister Namirembe Bitamazire commended Mukiibi for having invested his wealth to uplift the education standards of the country.
Underage students were registered!
Publication date: Monday, 13th March, 2006
SIR I want to register my appreciation to the Electoral Commission for the effort they made to clear up voters registers.
Nevertheless, we are concerned that the good work has been undone by the deliberate registration of under age voters by commission officials in some schools. The childrens ages have been falsified.
For instance, my 15-year-old niece who is in Senior Two was registered as a 22-year-old voter. What kind of message are you sending to these young souls? Why corrupt them to such an extent?
Perhaps the people claiming that the elections had already been rigged have a point. We are ready to give evidence of thi s malpractice if confidentiality and protection of the students is guaranteed.
Ethel Kaye
Wandegeya
Nevertheless, we are concerned that the good work has been undone by the deliberate registration of under age voters by commission officials in some schools. The childrens ages have been falsified.
For instance, my 15-year-old niece who is in Senior Two was registered as a 22-year-old voter. What kind of message are you sending to these young souls? Why corrupt them to such an extent?
Perhaps the people claiming that the elections had already been rigged have a point. We are ready to give evidence of thi s malpractice if confidentiality and protection of the students is guaranteed.
Ethel Kaye
Wandegeya
Outsourcing jobs is our only way out
Publication date: Monday, 13th March, 2006
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SIR I watched the Minister of Information, Dr James Nsaba-Buturo, on Election Special on UBC TV when he stood in for President
Yoweri
Museveni just before the presidential elections.
Buturos performance was superb. Due to limited time, however, he did not give a full answer to the question of why the Government has failed to find employment for university graduates.
The answer would have been that the Government cannot find employment for all graduates despite efforts to create jobs through promotion of investments. In 1987, the Government embarked on Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) intended to revamp the dilapidated economy inherited from the previous regimes.
One of the cornerstones of the SAPs was liberalisation of the economy, which gave the private sector an opportunity to invest in any sector of their choice depending on the physical, human and financial resources at their disposal. A number of entrepreneurs have chosen to invest in the social sector, particularly education, because all resources can be sourced locally involving no foreign exchange.
Furthermor e, once one has seed capital, the schools can expand exponentially with contributions from parents without any cost to capital. Consequently, many privately-owned primary and secondary schools have been built, creating a big population of students eligible for entry into tertiary institutions.
The private sector has responded appropriately to the big demand for tertiary education created by secondary school leavers by setting up tertiary institutions.
Presently, our universities and vocational and technical schools offload between 8,000 to 10,000 graduates onto the job market annually. Unlike the days when Uganda had only Makerere University and every graduate was assured of a job, this is no longer possible.
No Ugandan government can find 10,000 jobs every year for graduates unless some of them are outsourced. According to a report in The New Vision of February 20, 2006, the Government has taken an initiative of outsourcing jobs for graduates through the Business Empowerment Centre, which will equip them with new global job skills.
When this arrangement materialises, it will increase the number of Ugandans employed in the Diaspora and these will remit their savings to Uganda, leading to improved foreign exchange earnings.
From past experience, Ugandans who have had business exposure in foreign lands have come back home and established businesses that have created jobs. This is the way to go in tackling unemployment.
A.L Kyeyune-Sendagi
Kampala
Buturos performance was superb. Due to limited time, however, he did not give a full answer to the question of why the Government has failed to find employment for university graduates.
The answer would have been that the Government cannot find employment for all graduates despite efforts to create jobs through promotion of investments. In 1987, the Government embarked on Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) intended to revamp the dilapidated economy inherited from the previous regimes.
One of the cornerstones of the SAPs was liberalisation of the economy, which gave the private sector an opportunity to invest in any sector of their choice depending on the physical, human and financial resources at their disposal. A number of entrepreneurs have chosen to invest in the social sector, particularly education, because all resources can be sourced locally involving no foreign exchange.
Furthermor e, once one has seed capital, the schools can expand exponentially with contributions from parents without any cost to capital. Consequently, many privately-owned primary and secondary schools have been built, creating a big population of students eligible for entry into tertiary institutions.
The private sector has responded appropriately to the big demand for tertiary education created by secondary school leavers by setting up tertiary institutions.
Presently, our universities and vocational and technical schools offload between 8,000 to 10,000 graduates onto the job market annually. Unlike the days when Uganda had only Makerere University and every graduate was assured of a job, this is no longer possible.
No Ugandan government can find 10,000 jobs every year for graduates unless some of them are outsourced. According to a report in The New Vision of February 20, 2006, the Government has taken an initiative of outsourcing jobs for graduates through the Business Empowerment Centre, which will equip them with new global job skills.
When this arrangement materialises, it will increase the number of Ugandans employed in the Diaspora and these will remit their savings to Uganda, leading to improved foreign exchange earnings.
From past experience, Ugandans who have had business exposure in foreign lands have come back home and established businesses that have created jobs. This is the way to go in tackling unemployment.
A.L Kyeyune-Sendagi
Kampala
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