KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Ministry of Education and Sports has designed a three-year education institutions’ calendar that will guide schools to recover the lost time and also harmonize the normal school calendar and academic year schedules
Under the new school calendar, each term will be running for at least 12 weeks with holidays fixed around 15 to 17 days.
According to the schedule, the first term of the 2021 academic year will start on August 9, and end on October 29, 2021.
Learners will go for a fifteen-day holiday and return for the second term on November 15 studying up to February 4, 2022.
On February 22, 2022, the third term will begin and end on May 2 of the same year.
On May 16, 2022, schools will reopen for the 2022 academic year with its first term ending on August 5, 2020.
The second term will start on September 22 and end on November 16, while the third term will start on January 7 and end on March 24, 2023.
The 2023 academic year will start on April 10 and its first term will be running up to June 30.
The second term will then begin on July 17 ending on October 6 of the same year.
The shortest term of all will be the 2023 third term starting on November 23 up to December 22.
If all factors remain constant, the academic year will start following the known school calendar running from February to December starting from 2024.
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