The Monitor (Kampala)
Patience Ahimbisibwe
12 October 2009
Kampala — President Museveni has promised to train graduates to acquire skills that can make them employable.
Speaking at the 47th Independence Day celebrations, Mr Museveni said:"The NRM government will place emphasis on Business, Technical, Vocational Education and Training (BTVET) Institutions to ensure that graduates at all levels can acquire necessary skills that will make them employable as technicians and skilled workers and become self-employed as artisans and craftsmen."
He said that government will build a technical school in every district to supplement on the exiting 62.
Mr Museveni says the technical schools will provide the skills such as carpentry, metalwork, ceramics, brick-laying, electrical studies, motor-mechanics, as well as teach new subjects like food technology, industrial chemistry, and information technology. Uganda's education system has for years been criticised for training people for white-collar jobs, but not be job creators.
President Museveni said that about nine million Ugandan children are in primary school but added that three million children are not able to join school because of family issues.
"Three million children who are of primary and school going age are not in school because of social constraints and other impediments that families have, even though education for them is free and available," the President said on Friday.
"The NRM government will work towards ensuring that these other constraints are dealt with and ensure measures that will enable all children get an education, including the enforcement of the Education Act 2008 that makes education compulsory." He blamed bureaucrats for misusing resources.
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