Emphasizing employment oriented education

This term students at St. Joseph’s have been doing various work outside of school: construction work (building a house) and a biogas digester. The students have been taken out eight at the time, with two teachers. The number is limited to eight because of lack of transport means. They are picked out not based on marks but on interest and willingness to work.

The project is popular among the students, and to ensure that as many as possible is given the opportunity the group is changed every day. The teachers guide and work alongside the students. Both students and teachers are positive that this is a great learning experience, building confidence and giving the students a feeling of what it will be like in the real world after they finish school.
Former Fk-participants, Charles Kalema, John Wasswa and Daniel Kasozi together with colleagues in St.Joseph are trying to implement some of their experiences from Norway in their work on VET in Uganda.