There have been reports of reluctance from private schools to implement the new school curriculum.
While talking to the media recently, senior education officer, Luwero district, Enock Kiyimba, cautioned the schools about ignoring the new curriculum.
Kiyimba said the new curriculum is here to stay and therefore schools should heed to Government call to implement it.
He also said the schools should focus on addressing the challenges in the curriculum instead of ignoring them.
“In many schools, the new curriculum is still hard to implement. I want to encourage you where it has been challenging to find ways and means but ensure that this new curriculum is adhered to,” he said.
According to parliamentwatch.ug, the National Curriculum Development Centre made adjustments in the teaching subjects for the lower secondary. For instance, teaching subjects were reduced from 43 to 21.
In the new approved curriculum, schools will teach 12 subjects at senior one and two, out of which 11 will be compulsory while one will be elective. Students in senior three and four will be doing a minimum of eight or a maximum of nine subjects with seven of them being compulsory.
The new curriculum has been welcomed by government schools whose head teachers argue that it good since it will not only address grades, but also other life skills.
While talking to Daily Monitor newspaper, the head teacher of Busoga College Mwiri, Arthur Mbalule, said that the new school curriculum is in favour of traditional schools that had lost ground due to school liberalisation.
“The new curriculum is in favour of the traditional schools. We had lost touch with liberalisation as some schools had a very aggressive marketing approach government schools could not match,” he said.