Reliable information reaching our news desk confirms, the meeting which was scheduled for today between the First Lady and Minister of Education & Sports, Ms Janet Kataha Museveni and heads of different schools has been abruptly postponed.
The meeting which was aimed at discussing the way forward as far as re-opening of schools is concerned, was called off due to inside inconsistencies according to a State House correspondent and was re-scheduled for Friday July 24, 2020 next week at State House still as had been agreed at first.
With this move however, a section of legislators in the Ugandan parliament yesterday asked the government to declare 2020 a dead academic year and re-open schools the following year (2021) due to the fact that the Standard Operating Procedures for re-opening of schools and higher institutions as guided by the Ministry of health, would incur very high costs in the institutions.
The legislators committee was meeting the State Minister for Higher Education, John Chrysostom Muyingo, to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education sector.
We’ll keep you posted.
