The Ministry of Education through the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) has urged all Higher institutions of learning including Universities and Secondary schools not to re-open for their 2021 programmes for continuing candidates until government through the President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni issues a directive.
All education institutions were stopped from carrying on with their activities and consequently closed with all students returning home in March last year as a measure to combat the spread of the Coronavirus in the country.
However, they were re-opened last year for the candidate classes while continuing students were prohibited from returning.
Prof. Mary Okwakol, the Executive Director of the NCHE on the 22nd January 2020 addressed a letter to all Vice Chancellors of higher education institutions urging them to halt their plans of re-opening for first-year and continuing students.
A part of the letter reads;
“As you are well aware, the directives to reopen high education institutions for finalists on health-related programmes, and subsequently for all finalists were given by the President of the Republic of Uganda. Accordingly, we await a decision of Government on the way forward regarding re-opening for non-finalist classes.”
Earlier last week, it was reported that Makerere University was to re-open was among the institutions expected to re-open after issuing out plans to students on with freshers expected to report on January 30th, 2021.
Following the NCHE notice, the university said in a separate letter that their programme was only tentative as they continue to await on the government decision.
