The National Teacher Policy – Ministry of Education and Sports Uganda (2018)

This policy document was published by Uganda's Ministry of Education and Sports in September 2018. It sets a national framework to professionalise teaching so that it matches professions such as medicine, law and engineering. It covers the policy background, the legal framework, the problem statement, the rationale and the policy direction. It then sets out actions, implementation arrangements, monitoring and evaluation, and financing. The document refers to the 1992 Government White Paper on Education, the TISSA study, NDP II, Vision 2040 and SDG 4. It also has a glossary and a list of acronyms. It is useful to teachers, school administrators, teacher trainees and education stakeholders who want to understand teacher standards and management in Uganda.