Education Department
The main goal/objectives of the Department of Education in South Rwenzori Diocese include:
Currently the Diocese has 52 people training for lay readership and 8 for ordination. In the last two years over 30 lay readers have been commissioned each year.
We have been training Sunday school teachers at both parish and archdeaconry levels. The 2012 Synod resolved to start a nursery class for all 500 congregations and a programme of building work has been undertaken successfully for use as Sunday schools on Sunday and weekday nursery classes.
- To effective oversee the management of Educational institutions and programmes.
- To improve working relationships between the church and government in Education.
- To facilitate effective co-ordination of heads of institutions for easy dissemination of information and policy issues.
- To provide fora for Head teachers’ participation in policy making.
- To create awareness of the christen values among education institutions.
- To improve the discipline of teachers and students/pupils.
- To ensure interest of the Church are catered for and promoted.
- To provide Christian values (m0orals) and spiritual growth of the schools.
- To mobilise school chaplaincy system in schools so as to enable the schools realise the role of church in her institutions.
- To promote identity, say esteems and sense of ownership/belonging
- To supervise/inspect the learning system for academic improvement
Currently the Diocese has 52 people training for lay readership and 8 for ordination. In the last two years over 30 lay readers have been commissioned each year.
We have been training Sunday school teachers at both parish and archdeaconry levels. The 2012 Synod resolved to start a nursery class for all 500 congregations and a programme of building work has been undertaken successfully for use as Sunday schools on Sunday and weekday nursery classes.