Minister for Education and Sports Namirembe Bitamazire of Uganda
Minister of Education and Sports Namirembe Bitamazire was quoted as saying that the 2 million US dollar project will be a center for training of trainers of science and mathematics teachers in the east African country.
Head teachers went against our set standards and admitted them, a thing we can not allow," Bitamazire said while releasing results of the headcount of USE enrolled students that was carried out mid last month.
Bitamazire said the USE program had increased enrollment at Senior One level by 50 percent compared to the previous year.
These challenges are critical but we have to take them on for the program to succeed," Bitamazire said drawing on her past experience of implementing the country's Universal Primary Education (UPE.
Geraldine Namirembe BitamazireGeraldine Namirembe Bitamazire is Ugandas minister of education.
THE state minister for primary education, Namirembe Bitamazire has decried the prevalence of HIV/Aids in both lower and higher institutions of learning.
Bitamazire was speaking to journalists at the International Conference Centre in kampala after the opening ceremony of the Education Sector Budget Planning workshop.
STATE minister for Primary Education, Namirembe Bitamazire has advised parents to talk to their children about sex, sexuality, and other life skill practices.
Bitamazire said the state of health of Uganda's youth require more interaction on health and education related issues.
Bitamazire is half hidden behind piles of papers and initially frosty.
the Ugandan Minister of State for Primary education.
rights and girls education for many years.
Education Minister Namirembe Bitamazire said her ministry had released 7.
Education Minister Namirembe Bitamazire said in an interview on Saturday that there would be no random closures of wanting institutions in order not to disadvantage parents and pupils mid way the school calendar.
Ms Bitamazire met with top representatives of Budo Junior school yesterday to decide on whether or not the school should re-open.
The Minister of Education and Sports, Ms Namirembe Bitamazire said prostitution among teachers was news to her.
While talking to NTV this morning, education Minister, Namirembe Bitamazire says about 650 scouts are deployed in 2,159 examination centers across the country to monitor exams.
PERSPECTIVE OF A UGANDAN IN CANADAUGANDA'S minister of Education and Sports, Namirembe Bitamazire, announced over the weekend that she may seek to ban pregnant students from sitting examinations.
What is clear is that Minister Bitamazire is covering up for the utter failure of her ministry to tackle the problem of teenage pregnancy in a constructive non-threatening fashion.
Bitamazire said the bereaved families and survivors would receive counselling.
The Minister of Education and Sports, Geraldine Namirembe Bitamazire says pilot studies in Masaka and Luweero revealed that the scheme is not viable in primary schools.
Speaking at the fifth education and sports planning and budgeting workshop, the minister Geraldine Namirembe Bitamazire said that the double shift scheme in Secondary schools would help them enroll more students.
While launching the education assessment guidelines, at the national stakeholder's workshop on Monday, the Minister of Education and Sports, Geraldine Namirembe Bitamazire said that the government is concerned that after nine years of free primary education, some parents are still not sending their children to school.
Bitamazire says that the Government wants to ensure that pupils in Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools attain competency in reading and writing by P.
Bitamazire said tracking the performance of head teachers would create a fair, transparent and verifiable system of determining whether a teacher has performed satisfactorily.
Geraldine Namirembe Bitamazire is the Minister of Education and Sports of Uganda 2005 to date.
In April 1996, the Honourable Geraldine Namirembe Bitamazire was elected Member of Parliament and in 1999 she was appointed the Uganda Minister of State for Primary Education.
Born in 1941, Minister Bitamazire has a Diploma, Bachelor and Masters Degree in Education Management from Makerere University and has been promoting Womens Rights and Girls Education for many years.
Bitamazire was a member of the UN Commission on the status of Women from 1998 to 2001 and is a founding member of Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE.
Education minister Geraldine Namirembe Bitamazire said girl- guiding is one of the global movements that have registered success and commended them for the spirit of voluntarism they have manifested world-wide.
Education and sports minister Namirembe Bitamazire said there was need to sustain the Girl Guide movement, adding that the African continent needed confident and accomplished women.
Education minister namirembe Bitamazire says the cause of this disparity is the view the rural illiterate people have about education.
Education minister Namirembe Bitamazire has said she enjoyed every moment of her military training in Kyankwanzi, contrary to concerns from the opposition.