With just only two months left to ready, almost half of the private secondary schools in Luweero district are left unregistered.
Following the new guidelines that had been issued by the ministry of Education regarding incensing and registration of schools, the government issued an operational license that is renewed after five years unlike the previous years where the registration was only done once.
The assistant commissioner in charge of private schools in the Ministry of Education Mr Mutekanga George asserted that 57 of the 107 private secondary schools in Luweero are rightly registered.
“ We expect all private secondary schools to have the new registration certificates that have the names of the proprietors attached to the certificate and possession of a land title is among the other key requirements,” he said.
He further added that the government will only bring on board the gazetted secondary schools for the different educational activities and official programs after June 18.
The Luweero District senior education officer Mr Kiyemba Enoch voiced that 97 of the private secondary school have provisional operational licenses.
“ We have communicated to the proprietors of the schools that registration is mandatory,” he said.
The government had of recent directed all private schools to register, a process that will be revisited after every five years operations.
However the ministry of education pronounced that some schools are still non complaint because of the current registration certificates that don’t have expiry dates and that there is a need to update its database.
Following the available statistics indicate that the country has close to 17,858 private schools.
Nevertheless the ongoing registration captures five important features including ownership instead of focusing on the name of the school, board of governors approved by the ministry, ownership with a land title and the list of teachers employed by the school.
Meanwhile some of the private proprietors want the government to hire at least two science teachers for each private school following a big set back during the COVID -19 pandemic lockdown.
“ We are almost failing to attract science teachers in private schools because the science teachers are demanding higher salaries to match the enhanced salary for science teachers in government schools.
