In a development announced Thursday at a presser, Kyambogo University has released academic papers of more than 1,000 teachers from various National Teachers Colleges (NTCs) across the country.
The affected teachers were from the NTCs including Kabale NTC, Muni NTC, Unyama NTC (Gulu), Kaliro NTC, Mubende NTC.
The release comes at a time when the teachers were stuck due to the accumulation of a shs2.6 billion debt (altogether) from around 2017 by NTCs, which according to the university Vice Chancellor – Prof Eli Katunguka, has been settled by the Government of Uganda through the education ministry.
“Year in and year out, the Auditor General has been fluttering Kyambogo University for failing to collect this money because it is due to the university. Now that the Ministry of Education and Sports has agreed to take over the debt and they have communicated that decision to us, we have instructed the academic registrar to release all the academic documents to these institutions,” Prof Katunguka said.
The Vice Chancellor called upon the teachers to pick their transcripts at the earliest so as to upgrade their qualifications as required by the government in the new National Teachers Policy.
Each trainee teacher pays shs470,000 to their training colleges over two years for examination, convocation and academic transcripts.
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