The new Isaac Newton High School site on Mbute Hill, Mpigi has been secured by the construction of a perimeter fence. Being a completely open site was causing problems for the school. Local hunters and farmers had been coming on to the site at weekends to take water from the rainwater collection tanks, leaving the …
Posted: May 8, 2014 by Steve Hurd
Homosexuality issue in Uganda hits donations to Humanist Schools
The newly published 2013 Annual Report and Accounts of UHST shows a £20,000 fall in donations between 2012 and 2013 and Steve Hurd, the Chair of UHST, says there has been a further worrying decline since October 2013. While it is difficult to be sure of the reasons, the fall coincides with the prominent press …
Posted: April 18, 2014 by Steve Hurd
Humanist school students perform well in national UCE examinations
This year’s Uganda Certificate in Education (UCE) O-level results were delayed by a month as the result of a virus attack on the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) central computers. A team of experts had to be brought in from South Africa to clean up the system and recover the marks of each student. It …
Posted: March 25, 2014 by Steve Hurd
Mbute school site secured
The new Isaac Newton High School site on Mbute Hill, Mpigi has been secured by the construction of a perimeter fence. Being a completely open site was causing problems for the school. Local hunters and farmers had been coming on to the site at weekends to take water from the rainwater collection tanks, leaving the …