New Vision: Norway rewards Ugandan teachers

Ingrid Kjelsnes hands over the laptops to Bakka Male at King’s College, Budo

Norway rewards Ugandan teachers
New Vision skriver i sin tirsdagsutgave om samarbeidet mellom Telemark og Uganda:
Ugandan teachers are to benefit from Norway’s extension of the teacher’s exchange programme with Uganda to 2013. The programme that initially ran from 2002-2007 was reviewed by the Norway in partnership with Fredskorpset due to the good implementation in Uganda.

The programme has one teacher from Kings College Budo, Mengo S.S and St. Joseph technical Institute, each selected to teach in the Norwegian schools.
According to the arrangement, teachers from Uganda teach practical and science subjects in Norway while Norwegian teachers handle information technology, physical education and wood and metal work in Uganda.
One of the beneficiaries of the programme, Peter Ssenyimba of Kings College Budo, said Ugandan teachers will be exposed to the Norwegian system of conducting lessons in groups to facilitate close teacher-child interaction in class.
“I implemented it in Budo and now I can easily relate with my students, which was not the case before. I can quickly establish any problem if there is any,” says Senyimba Ugandan teachers will also learn to use teaching aids to enrich their lessons.
Meanwhile, Kings College Budo has received a donation of eight laptops worth sh16m. Handing over the donation to Patrick Bakka Male, the school head teacher, Fredskorpset project coordinator, Ingrid Kjelsnes, said the donation was an extension of the warm relationship between Norway and Uganda. (Mubiru Kakebe, New Vision)