allAfrica.com: Uganda: Doom Looms As Govt Admits Failures in Teaching Profession - 0 views
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Education experts are warning that the absorption of poor academic performers for training as teachers is a recipe for disaster for Uganda's future.
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Our analysis of scores of prospective new entrants at Primary Teachers' Colleges across the country reveals that most of those admitted obtained low grades in the 2010 O-level examinations, raising questions about their academic competence.
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"It is a challenge. I would think that teaching should take the cream of the students but people don't want to join because the profession is looked at as an area for low [academic] performers," said Ms Margaret Rwabushaija, the Uganda National Teachers' Union (UNATU) chairperson.
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