Ol IOC YY Ur boUvel aovowsoovrmanrm | meet The sample papers ons Satie cover more than 36 net Musoven, i releases UCE subjects. Tent st Stato see Lodge Naka- BYJANENAFULA sora Kampala, onFobruary ‘Uganda National Bxamina-_ ‘Uneb yester- tions Board (Uneb) has released dayreleased Sampleoxams forthe new Uuan= sample exams a Certfcate obdveaton (OCH) forthe new conpetenorbcedasessment. Uganda ert ‘ME Dan Odo, the Une execu cate ofr tie decor yesterday sate moves ton Ue) Intended to expose both teachers and (A ‘competency- Teemers toe question format under tne acon thenewLowe Secondary Cursculum. tment. PHOTO” “thesampepeperscanbe acces Fran BAGUA vin the Une porta yl Une ea {nation cents Uneb wil dstabute arcopy boots to schools without centre umes? 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Schoolsandwererecsivinglow pay tointroduce Kiswahili in primary ease In july 2022, Cabinet approved t “According to the statistics from the “We appeal to the government to ab- teaching, implementation ofthe 21st East AN ‘Kiswahili Language Teachers Associa- sorbtheseteachers and they aredistrib- “thas been researched that ifachildis can Community Suramit directive. ton CHAKITAU).ofthe2,401 registered _utedto different schools across the coun- | introduced to alanguage when hesheis Uganda o adopt Kiswahili asthe of ‘members the association, 2,056 each try”Dr Kiggundu said at the weekend _ stillvery young,they willspeakit fluent’ callanguage, ersareunemployed. ddutinga two-day conference for Kiswahi- ly compared to the person introduced to The Cabinet also approved comp ‘This means that only 345 Kiswahili students, language when he orheisold"DrMa- _soryteachingofthe languagein prim ‘twachers are employed countrywide by from diferent Kiswahiliteach- ry and secondary schools. The dir ‘thegovernment. ‘ng universities met and discussed how tive has since worked wel in secon (Ofthe 34S teacherson the government | to develop the language and pave the | ABOUT KISWAHILE aryas Kiswahiliisnow compulsory # payroll, 57 are diploma holders,23 are _wayforthefuture, : studentsin senior Oneand Senior Tv Jinsters degrecholders.9 are Kswahi- | DrBoazMutungi,the vice president of _Kiwabil, mainly spoken inthe __butthe goverment s yet to ntrodu Heh holders and therestarebachelors the CHAKTTAL, asked the governmentto EastAfticanregion,hasearned —_thesamneinthe primary evel ‘degree holders. One PhD holder is not recruit the available teachers such that _itsplace of pride as one ofthe ‘October 2022 Cabinet introduc employe ‘iswaiiswidely taught worlds top 10 most spoken aplantohaverminsterslearn Kiswa CCHARTTAU stands for Chama Cha | "Weeannotlook at science nly being _ languages and Africa's most Tifratleastanhoureveryweekss0 iswallChaToifachaUganda,aKswaili promotedbutwehavetohavealanguage widely used native language, ofthe stepsto fully achievthe Eas. NouimearingNstonalKiswahii Asoc thatcan simply seiencetoourpeople;" ItenjoysoffcalstatusinKenya rican integration Butt Jooks ike tionof Uganda. hesaid andTanzaniaandisalsowldely __inativehitasnag,withno positive Drifubearnad Kiggundv,thehead ot | CHARITUwantsthegovemmenttode-| spokeninpartsofDRCongo, sls the Department of Languages at Mak- velop policy indiferent institutions to Rwanda,and Burundi. ie Criveritysaid since Kiswahiliwas | start training Swahili language. ‘ditorisl@ug.nationmedia.com