Uganda: Private, Government Schools Join Forces to Seek Reopening

Headteachers of government-funded schools and owners of private schools have met to consolidate their negotiations to convince government to partially reopen education institutions.

During a joint meeting last week, the headteachers of government schools under Association of Secondary School Headteachers of Uganda (ASSHU) agreed with their private school counterparts the Federation of Non-state Education Institutions (Fenei) that at least candidate classes should be allowed to report as earlier arranged. They reasoned that this would enable schools test their capacity to control the spread of coronavirus before the rest of the learners join them.

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