Government has offered the National Teachers’ Bill, 2024 which seeks to determine the National Teacher’s Council that will likely be charged with regulation of the instructing occupation, registration, licensing and disciplinary procedures for academics.
The Bill, along with the required certificates of monetary implication was tabled for the primary studying by the Minister of State for Higher Education, John Chrysostom Muyingo, throughout plenary sitting on Tuesday, 06 August 2024.
In establishing the National Teacher’s Council, the Bill additionally seeks to offer for the administration of internship programme for academics and regulation of the instructing occupation.
According to the Bill, through the years, there have been issues of instructor absenteeism, ineffective instructing, low {qualifications} and lack of requirements for academics, attributed to the defects and gaps recognized within the Education (Pre-Primary, Primary and Post-Primary) Act, 2008.
“The goal of the Bill is to determine an expert physique accountable for regulating the instructing occupation by consolidating the registration and licensing processes,” reads a part of the Bill.
The Bill furthers goals at making certain provision of steady skilled improvement of the instructing occupation.
Another justification for the Bill is hinged on the choice by Cabinet to part out the place of Directors in all Ministries, arguing that this has an impact on the authorized provision for registration and licensing of academics.
“An impartial laws on the instructing occupation is meant to advertise, preserve and defend the moral requirements of the instructing occupation,” the Bill additional reads.
Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa, referred the Bill to the Committee on Education and Sports for scrutiny.
“Ensure you give it [The Bill] sufficient consideration, seek the advice of broadly in order that we resolve points on this sector,” mentioned Tayebwa.
Meanwhile, authorities fell wanting tabling, for his or her first studying; 15 payments on Rationalisation of Government Agencies and Public Expenditure (RAPEX).
The Bills, notable amongst which embrace; the National Agricultural Advisory Services (Amendment) Bill, 2024, the National Coffee (Amendment) Bill, 2024, the National Forestry and Tree Planting (Amendment) Bill, 2024, the National Information Technology Authority, Uganda (Amendment) Bill, 2024, the Uganda National Roads Authority Act (Repeal) Bill, 2024 and the Uganda Road Fund (Amendment) Bill, 2024.
The Minister of Local Government, Raphael Magyezi, requested for extra time, saying that authorities remains to be consulting on the payments.
“I due to this fact wish to request that you just allow us as authorities to defer these to the subsequent two weeks,” Magyezi mentioned.
RAPEX was adopted by Cabinet on 22 February 2021 in a bid to cut back wasteful public expenditure by authorities businesses and save greater than Shs1 trillion shillings in public expenditure.
