We Are Ready to Roll Out Chinese Language Curriculum Across the Country -Ministry of Education

According to Ms. Grace Baguma, Director of the National Curriculum Development Center (NCDC), Uganda is prepared to teach Chinese at the Advanced Level (A-Level).

According to Ms. Baguma, the Minister of Education and Sports has already given the go-ahead for the NCDC to implement a training curriculum for teaching Chinese language in schools.

‘’This would allow the first group of students, who studied Chinese at the Ordinary Level this year, to continue studying the language at the A-Level and will help students get ready for Chinese language degree programs,’’ she said.

"We need to encourage our children to be able and master the Chinese language as they go to A-Level in February next year," she continued.

Ms. Baguma said that 39 teachers received diplomas during the graduation ceremony for the 4th cohort of the Uganda Secondary School Teacher of Chinese Language Training Program yesterday at the Luyanzi Institute of Technology, Bweyogerere in the Wakiso District.

Ms. Baguma said that the Uganda-China secondary school teachers' Chinese language training program has already trained 139 teachers from both private and public schools, with assistance from the Chinese Embassy.

Only 60 of the nation's 7,000 secondary schools, she pointed out, are already offering the course; at least 1,000 are intended to.

Importance of learning Chinese language

International businesses prefer to hire people who speak more than one language. China has become a huge market, and business leaders are looking for people who can speak Chinese and operate successfully in a Chinese cultural context.