First Lady and Education Minister Janet Museveni has said that the government has not banned E-Learning, contrary to social media reports to the contrary.
In an address to the country on how the Education sector is responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mrs Museveni indicated that the Education Ministry is drafting guidelines that will further streamline E-learning in the country.
“What we are doing as a Sector is to put forward a comprehensive sector-wide agenda to guide delivery of formal Education through e-learning mechanisms because it has implications on quality of education for the country and its citizens,”Mrs Museveni said.
She added: “Once the ICT and E-Learning Framework is complete, we shall communicate it to our stakeholders and the public at large because you all deserve to know,”
Mrs Museveni said that there has been a misconception in the media that the Ministry of Education and Sports prohibited e-learning, clarifying that “it is absolutely not true”.
“We cannot be the ones banning what we are promoting. A number of institutions including Uganda Christian University, Makerere University and several International Schools in Basic and Secondary levels have been utilizing e-learning; even before the outbreak of COVID-19,”Mrs Museveni said.
E-learning has been spearhead by Kampala Primary School, which has been conducting digital learning for all its students during the lockdown.
