The teachers will go to 91 seed schools.

Government has announced that it has started a process that will see it recruit at least 2821 teachers for 91 seed schools around the country ahead of the new school term.

The chairperson of the Education Service Commission, Rev. Prof. Dr. Samuel Luboga said having advertised these jobs on December, 23,2024, they will close receiving of applications from teachers on January 10.

"The schools have been organized in 10 clusters to ease access to the application submission process by the eligible teaching and non-teaching staff," Prof. Luboga said.

He mentioned the application receiving centres for the clusters as Gulu, Arua, Soroti, Mbale, Kololo in Kampala, Hoima, Fort Portal, and Mbarara.

The principal economist in the Ministry of Education and Sports, Derrick Namisi explained that the 91 schools are part of the second batch of seeds schools under the Uganda Government Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers program (UGIFT).

He explained that each school will recruit 31 staff including seven graduate science teachers, to make a total of 637 for the 2821 schools, the same number will be recruited for arts teachers.

The schools will also get 364 diploma holding science teachers, and 455 diploma holding arts teachers.

"Each school will get six non- teaching staffs to make it 547 non-teaching staffs in total and these will include bursars, library assistants and laboratory assistants among others," Namisi said.

The secretary of the Education Service Commission, Dr.Asuman Lukwago said they will require shs1.3 billion to carry out this exercise.

This budget he said will cater for allowances and transporting of the staff to the various application receiving centres around the country in a bid to bid the deadline for opening of the new term.

Officials from the Education Service Commission urged teachers to personally take their applications to the various centres.