Buganda Kingdom has urged the Ministry of Education and Sports to make local languages a priority on the new education curriculum. According to a letter written by the Katikkiro of Buganda Charles Peter Mayiga to the Minister of Education and Sports Janet Museveni, he suggested that Luganda should be made a compulsory subject for all schools in Buganda.
Mayiga said Luganda and other local languages are important tools to promote a student’s comprehension as well as promoting culture and enhance capacity of expression.
“Developed nations of the world promote native languages irrespective of the smallness of the size that use them,” Mayiga wrote.
The Katikkiro also urged the Ministry to put more emphasis on subjects that lead to prosperity like agriculture and Information Communication Technology (ICT).
“We have had time to read the new curriculum and there are four areas of concern that we think need to be revisited in order to achieve the goals and objectives for which the new curriculum was introduced,” Mayiga wrote.
He said ICT should not be compulsory for all students up to at least Senior Four. “It is important to prepare the young generation for the future of a technologically driven economy,” Mayiga added.
Mayiga also asked that history is an
important subject and should not be an elective subject.
“The mistakes and pitfalls as well as commendable episodes of the past become
learning curves for the citizens,” he wrote.