"Unregistered schools will not reopen, says government"

The Ministry of Education and Sports has announced that private secondary schools without licenses will not be allowed to open for the first term unless they put in place the basic requirements as demanded by government.  Mr Ismail Mulindwa, the commissioner in charge of private secondary education, said defiant schools which open for the first term on February 6 will be closed forthwith...“There is no school that is supposed to open for term one if it is not registered. We don’t know them and they are the ones bringing us problems. Many of them are substandard and the quality of education they offer is poor,” Mr Mulindwa said...

There are about 3,500 private secondary schools in the country. The ministry estimates that more than 100 non-compliant schools will be affected at the beginning of the term, some districts are already posting bigger numbers. Some of the schools lack qualified teachers, don’t have laboratories and lack latrines.