TEACHERS UNDERGOING SESEMAT TRAINING IN ALBERTINE REGION PROTEST LOW TRANSPORT ALLOWANCE

By our reporter

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In Hoima

Teachers attending the ongoing training of Senior One Teachers on Uganda’s revised Lower Secondary Curriculum in Albertine region today morning held a peaceful demonstration protesting low transport allowance.

The Ministry of Education and the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) on Monday started to conduct the sessions across 27 centers in the country with Albertine region training at Duhaga secondary school in Hoima municipality.

However, today morning, teachers told trainers how they are not ready for any other session until their grievances are solved.

Among these was to assure them of daily 30,000 transport allowance, providing them with good meals, improved washrooms among others.

Some of the teachers said that when they reported on Monday, trainers did not tell them about transport allowance until their fellows in other training centers revealed to them that they are supposed to be given 30,000 per day.

The peaceful demonstration has forced trainers together with Hoima district Education Officer Mr. Godfrey Sserwanja to call for a meeting with teachers to resolve their grievances.

During the meeting, teachers kept watering down Mr. Sserwanja’s speech as he went on threatening to deal with those who have misbehaved.

Sserwanja told teachers that they should mind about their relevance and sustainability of the program otherwise the demonstration might cost some of them.

George Irumba who is in charge of administration at Duhaga secondary school training Centre said that they have been challenged with most teachers who have decided to keep departing the training Centre after registering their names in the daily attendance list.

They have however resolved to go on with training sessions after accepting to pocket 30,000 transport allowances which will be given to them at the end of the training on Friday this week.

The SESEMAT programme was introduced in 2005 with the purpose of improving the teaching ability of science and mathematics teachers at secondary level; and to improve performance in those subjects.

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