Browsing by Author "Businge, Conan"

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    9,000 allied health students start examinations today
    (New Vision, 2017-06-19) Businge, Conan
    A total of 9,200 students from Allied Health training institutions will today start their national examinations from various parts of the country. The examinations will run up to July 8.
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    Children who pack lunch do well in class
    (New vision, 2017-12-06) Businge, Conan
    Studies show a strong correlation between lunch and test scores at school. If a child does not have lunch, there is a likelihood that they will not perform well in class.
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    Chinese firm sponsors more Luyanzi students
    (New Vision, 2017-11-15) Businge, Conan
    Henan Guoji Group, a Chinese real estate developer, has joined other Chinese companies to sponsor Ugandan students of Luyanzi College in Bweyogerere, Kampala to study in Uganda and abroad.
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    College school raises billions for teachers' houses
    (New Vision, 2017-01-04) Businge, Conan
    The new Makerere College School (MACOS) campus is constructing buildings using Sh1.2b generated internally. Conan Businge spoke to the management on how they have achieved this feat. Martin Muyingo, the headteacher of MACOS says the school started saving for this project in 2014 before he joined.
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    Fighting drug abuse is everybody's responsibility.
    (New Vision, 2017-09-13) Businge, Conan
    The National Drug Authority and New Vision yesterday rewarded 20 winners of the essay competition against drug and substance abuse. The awards were a culmination of a long campaign period where the two partner institutions sensitised schools and communities on the dangers of drugs and substance abuse.
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    First lady concludes school feeding campaign
    (Sunday Vision, 2018-06-03) Bwambale, Taddeo; Businge, Conan
    After a six week tour around the country sensitising parents about feeding their school-going children, the First Lady, Mrs. Janet Museveni, has announced the end of her campaign.
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    First lady opens first of 138 new schools
    (New Vision, 2018-05-04) Businge, Conan; Ssengendo, Abdulkarim
    " This is a new dawn in the education sector," remarked the first lady and education minister on Wednesday, as she opened Birere Primary School in Isingiro district, in Western Uganda. The first lady echoed her call for parents to offer lunch to their school-going children.
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    First lady unveils 10 schools in Sebei
    (Saturday Vision, 2018-06-02) Businge, Conan
    Thee First lady, and education minister Mrs Janet Museveni, has commissioned newly built primary school buildings at Chebalat Primary school. This is one of 10 primary schools constructed in Sebei region under global partnership in Education (GPE I) grant.
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    Getting the right nursery school
    (New Vision, 2017-11-08) Businge, Conan
    A good kindergarten must have a wide range of age-appropriate toys, to help and stimulate creativity and imaginative play. A good nursery school must have an outdoor play area that encourage running, jumping, and skipping, which helps the child to develop physically, mentally and socially.
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    Gombe schools represent Uganda at global summit
    (New Vision, 2017-08-02) Businge, Conan
    Twenty students from Gombe Junior school and St. Andrew's Kaggwa Gombe High School last week set off for India, where they will represent Uganda at an education summit. "At the summit students debate solutions to complex global challenges"
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    Graduates should not miss oil industry window
    (New Vision, 2017-09-06) Businge, Conan
    The oil and gas industry in Uganda has slowly absorbed Ugandans to work as technical people and managers. This is partly because the country, save for the studies made decades ago, was not ready with graduates to embrace this trade. After agriculture, the extractive sector is the most important in this region.
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    Graduates tipped on innovation
    (New vision, 2017-12-20) Businge, Conan
    Patrick Bitature, a business mogul, says entreneurship is about having control over one's destiny. The only way to control your destiny is to create it.
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    How to prepare your child for kindergarten.
    (New Vision, 2017-11-08) Businge, Conan
    While preparing for nursery school, instead of drilling children with counting and reading the alphabet, she says, parents need to focus more concentration on the child's ability to co-operate, talk with and play with others.
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    Hunger eats away children's academic grades
    (New Vision, 2018-05-02) Businge, Conan
    The first lady and education minister Janet Museveni, combing the country with the 'gospel' of parents giving their children lunch while at school. Her message is - " Without lunch, school going pupils will not do well in their studies". Conan Businge explains into the impact of missing lunch on a child's learning process.
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    I never miss new vision's education guides - Bitamazire.
    (New vision, 2017-11-02) Businge, Conan
    The former education minister, Geralgine Namirembe Bitamazire, says she never misses a chance to read New Vision's education guides and encourages parents and teachers to make use of the opportunity.
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    Let us support youth in the fight against stigma.
    (New Vision, 2017-11-29) Businge, Conan
    Everyone has a duty to fight HIV stigmatisation. HIV-related stigma and discrimination refers to prejudice, negative attitudes and abuse directed at people living with HIV/AIDs. In 35% of countries with available data, over 50% of people report having discriminatory attitudes towards people living with HIV.
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    Let's improve our country's schools
    (New Vision, 2017-09-20) Businge, Conan
    The Government is revamping and constructing more public primary schools around the country. The initial stages of the construction and revamp are funded by the Global Partners in Education, through the World Bank.
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    More science teachers, laboratories needed
    (New Vision, 2017-08-02) Businge, Conan
    Several schools do not have enough science teachers and others lack laboratories. The education ministry's 2016 annual sector review report shows that there is need to hire 4,000 more science teachers to fill the void.
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    Ntare School's Mumbere wins continental technology award
    (New Vision, 2018-04-14) Businge, Conan
    Amos Mumbere, a senior Six student of Ntare school in Mbarara district, has emerged the continental winner of the 2017 Dstv Eutelsat Star Technology awards. He beat 1,000 competitors from all over the continent.
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    Nursury education boosts academic success - studies.
    (New Vision, 2017-11-08) Businge, Conan
    Children who receive nursery education are twice as likely to go on and join A'level and later University, according to a 2016 study by Oxford University.