[Ugnet] Ug Science Policy-No Education 4 Northerners

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Uganda's education system  continue to be deliberately set up to justify labeling Northerners as backwards, anyanya, uneducated and primitive. As if it is not bad enough, according to the new science policy below, children from the North will never go beyond S4. How can Uganda introduce such a science policy when the entire Northern Uganda children are in camps and don't even know a word of English..never even seen or heard of the letter "A"?

 

Northerners are not sleeping either. Recently, I heard some Acholi men cracking jokes: "They can win the military war but not the intellectual war... They haven't seen real war yet, we have a record and they know it...Soon, if one can't fluently speak a language from the North, they will need a Visa stamp PhD in order to cross Karamu to go to North Uganda...and I will be the immigration officer at Karamu where they will be a sign post that is clearly visible right from Kampala." The other one said: They have to be bilingual..two Northern Languages...I will deal with the ones who don't speak Acholi...and I will introduce myself as the real Anyanya.

 

Imagine this conversation was taking place in the Acholi language, spiced with English where necessary, I wished you heard it straight from their mouth...It was the best joke that generated a lot of laughter. It was this article below that initiated it...

 

 

News | April 29, 2006

Sciences to determine first grade at O -Level Jan Ajwang KAMPALA UNLIKE previously, when science subjects were not considered in accessing students grade, Uneb now considers them vital. According to Uneb’s Public Relations Officer, Ms Eva Konde, candidates who will fail all the compulsory science subjects would not be in the first grade. Physics, Chemistry and Biology were last year made compulsory in O-level. “A candidate should pass at least one science subject in order not to be in the second grade,” said Konde. Until early March, UNEB moved from recommending a minimum of eight subjects for candidates to setting all of them as a major yardstick for grading. Previously the grading was based on the best six subjects. According to Konde, the grading changed because there was need for coherence between Uneb’s grading and the method the government used for selections (admission to S.5 basing on performance in best eight subjects) “ If we continue using the best six subjects a candidate may not concentrate on the two other subjects, yet when it comes to selections it will be done basing on the best eight subjects” she explains. High enrollment According to Konde, the number of enrollment is increasing alongside good performance, which makes grading at six subjects a narrow margin. “Now the numbers are increasing and if you have many passing with flying colours you cannot easily choose from only six subjects,” she explains. “But when you use the best eight you are more likely to make a breakthrough because a candidate may have passed only six subjects and failed the other two.” She said pushing the grading to eight subjects would make students improve their grades in order to compete favourably for selections.

EQUALITY FOR KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."

Albert Einstein

EQUALITY FOR KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

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