NICHOLAS A
The Commissioner of Secondary Education in the Ministry of Education and Sports, Ms. Atuhaire Juliet Muzoora, has revealed that the Curriculum Development Center will soon start visiting regions to train teachers on how to implement the bridged curriculum in Advanced Level.
In an interview with our reporter, Muzoora said that the Government of the Republic of Uganda is currently focused on skilling Uganda and has introduced the lower secondary competence-based curriculum to enable learners to study while acquiring skills that can help them survive in the working world.
She challenged heads of schools with Advanced Level to embrace the bridged curriculum, which enables Ordinary Level leavers to continue learning skills.
Muzoora urged Ugandans to embrace the new curriculum, noting that it is equipping a large number of Ugandans with practical skills.
She told our reporter that the new pedagogy aims to provide learners with 21st-century skills, including critical thinking, creativity, collaboration or teamwork, communication, information literacy, ICT, and flexibility.
She, therefore, challenged school heads to embrace it for both Ordinary Level and Advanced Level.
The government rolled out the new lower secondary education curriculum in February 2020 with the aim of meeting learners’ needs, especially in regard to skills training and enhancement.
It is remembered that the Minister for Education, Hon. Janet Museveni, in her statement to Parliament, said that the need to review the curriculum was long overdue since it had not been revisited since the colonial education system was introduced. The Minister revealed that the old curriculum was producing graduates with no practical skills to meet the demands of the labor market.
