Uganda’s National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) has approved the study of Chinese at the secondary school level and is set to import Chinese teachers to train Ugandan teachers.

This has been revealed by the Ministry of Education. It says it is working with the government of China to import teachers to train Ugandan teachers how to teach Chinese in Uganda.

Learning of Chinese by Ugandan teachers will begin in February and will run until November 2017 before the curriculum is rolled out at the beginning of 2018 in secondary schools.

Henry Adramunguni, the foreign languages curriculum specialist at the National curriculum development center (NCDC) says the teachers will initially be posted to government aided schools as the Chinese language gets introduced in the curriculum.

“We are going to start teaching Chinese all over the country and 20 schools have been selected to start with,” Henry Adramunguni, the foreign languages curriculum specialist at the National Curriculum Development Centre is quoted to have said by CCTV.