Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga is not happy with the decision that was reached by National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) to drop 23 subjects from the national syllabus.
“The decision to remove some these subjects is detrimental to us because we will miss out on certain skill-set which are very crucial for artisan work; not everyone can do a white collar job,” Kadaga said while officiating the launch of a tree planting project at Teso College Aloet, on Saturday 25th November, 2017.
Kadaga further said that “These subjects are good at equipping the population with skills that help create jobs.”
She particularly raised concern over the dropping of subjects like; Electricity, Power, Energy, Woodwork, Building and Construction and Metal Work.
She said that these subjects would provide vocational training to a big number of the population that cannot go through the traditional education to attain white collar jobs.