Education Sector Strategic Plan 2004-2015 - Planipolis

Work Plan 2004/5-2006/7: NCDC
Intervention Activities Manager Completion date
Objective 3: An effective and efficient Education Sector
3.1 Decentralised authority, financing and management of pre-primary, primary, post-primary and tertiary services.
3.1.3 .Central office formulate sectoral policy and broadly direct financial resources, ensure that the legislative framework
reflects the strategic directions, conduct and disseminate research, and support the development of pilot and special
programs.
3.1.3.2 Develop and review
policies concerned with subsectors
and programs
Prepare, produce and submit a proposal for a national Handwriting Policy NCDC 2004/05
3.1.3.4 Support projects that
pilot ways to improve learning
in literacy and numeracy, and
spread lessons learned
throughout the system.
3.1.3.5 Institute a coherent
system of assessment that
includes day-to-day
assessment in the classroom,
assessment at each grade
level, and post-primary and
secondary exams of critical
competencies.
3.1.3.6 Track the allocation
and use of resources, such as
in primary-level quality-related
agencies (UNEB, ESA, NCDC,
PTE, SNE/CG, EPD,
Pre/Primary) and secondary
school size and staffing.
Assess projects and innovations on Breakthrough to Literacy, etc ICT-enhanced curriculum
delivery, etc Entrepreneurship in Integrated Production Skills, etc and other approaches to
improvements in learning achievement for their consistency with the overall sector strategic
objectives of the NCDC Workplan. Design, prepare and implement a project to pilot the
operationalisation of the national Handwriting policy.Disseminate and popularise/ market the
lessons learnt/ capacities acquired from projects/innovations on curriculum development and
improvements in curriculum delivery.
Review and make critiques of all syllabus specifications for a standardized approach to the
formulation of curricular attainment targets and high priority competencies desired at each stage.
Formulate guidelines on the use of attainment targets and high priority competencies as the basis
for Continuous Assessment (CA) tools to evaluate learning achievement. Design specimen testing
schemes and specimen examination papers as integral components of the curricula and their
syllabuses. Organise and conduct consultations and orientations to build capacity on operational
design and use of CA tools.Prepare and disseminate annual reports/digests on the performance of
curriculum delivery in schools and colleges.
Conduct statutory annual strategy-setting exercises at Academic Steering Board (ASB) level to
determine curriculum development agenda feasible on available and accessible resources. Carry
out bi-annual performance reviews at both Council and ASB levels on the curriculum development
outputs by NCDC. Organise and conduct biennial national conferences on curriculum matters,
reforms in curriculum development processes and the contributions of the Ugandan public to
stakeholders' consultations on changes of curricula in the education system.
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