The Ministry of Education and Sports has launched a new Secondary school inspection system expected to boost the quality of education.
It was launched on Thursday at State House Entebbe by the Minister of Education and Sports Hon. Bakabulindi Charles.
The Minister of Education, Janet Kataha Museveni says that the new methodology is going to improve on the quality of education in the country.
The new system that is being rolled out next month in 1,000 schools in six districts in the country was first implemented in Masaka in 2017 across 40 schools.
The new methodology will see, two school inspectors carrying out inspections per school.
The new system will also focus on assessing; attendance of teachers, attendance of learners, quality of teaching, learning achievements, the behavior of learners, the safety of learners and the quality of leadership in schools.
Dr. Kedrace Turyagenda, the Director of Education Standards in the Ministry of Education, says that school inspections that were carried out before were ineffective because inspectors did not have enough time to properly inspect the schools.
She added that with the new system, two teachers will be expected to spend an entire day in a school, attend a total of 8 lessons and check in certain things.
The methodology was developed by the Ark Education Partnerships Group- an international UK based Education NGO. It will be funded by the Department for International Development-DFID for five years.
