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UVTAB is responsible for the Assessment and Certification of Competences obtained through Formal and Informal Technical & Vocational Education and Training and development and management of TVET curriculum and training packages. (The Technical & Vocational Education and Training Act, No.3 of 2025)
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“I am pleased to welcome you to UVTAB Website. UVTAB is a national TVET assessment body established by the TVET Act No.3 of 2025. UVTAB is responsible for the assessment and certification of competencies obtained through formal and informal TVET. The Board is responsible for the development of Assessment Training Packages and TVET curricular in consultation with the Sector Skills Expert committees, TVET providers and with approval of TVET Council....”
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Kampala, November 4, 2026 — The Uganda Vocational and Technical Assessment Board (UVTAB) held a constructive meeting with Prof. Eriabu Lugujjo, Executive Director of the Uganda Vice-Chancellors’ Forum (UVCF), at Makerere University on 4th November 2026. The discussion focused on opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing to strengthen technical and vocational education and training (TVET) assessment and curriculum development within Uganda’s higher education sector. UVTAB was represented by a three-member delegation: Mr. Narasi Kambaho, Principal Communications Officer. The engagement comes as Uganda implements the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Act, 2025, which provides a framework for streamlining TVET assessment and curriculum development. It also provides for a qualification’s framework intended to support equivalence between TVET qualifications and conventional education, and to create clearer progression pathways. These changes make collaboration between UVTAB and universities important. Universities can contribute research, subject expertise, facilities and academic oversight to curriculum development and assessment design. Working together can help ensure that training reflects industry needs, assessment measures practical competence, and qualifications are meaningful and portable. The TVET Act 2025’s provisions and respective institutional responsibilities should guide any partnership, including the accreditation and approval requirements that apply to TVET programmes. University partnerships can also support learners’ academic progress. Clear pathways between TVET qualifications and further study can help trainees build on their skills, pursue higher qualifications. Collaboration should therefore include discussion of progression, recognition of prior learning, and how TVET awards relate to further study within the relevant regulatory and qualifications-framework requirements. UVCF is a collective platform for university leaders and degree awarding institutions in Uganda. It brings together leaders to promote collaboration, policy engagement, knowledge sharing and the advancement of quality higher education. The Forum represents leaders from 54 accredited universities, of which 11 are public and 43 are private. Prof. Lugujjo said the Forum’s next annual academic engagement 2026 is expected to take place at Metropolitan University in Mbarara City in Decemeber 2026. The event will bring together Vice chancellors from universities across the country and could provide a further opportunity to discuss cooperation between universities and TVET institutions. UVCF was established in 1997 as a forum for vice-chancellors and heads of higher education institutions to address shared challenges and provide a unified voice for the sector. Its current chair is Busitema University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Paul Waako, a pharmacologist with extensive academic leadership experience. UVTAB is seeking stronger engagement with universities to support its mandate and contribute to Uganda’s TVET and innovation agenda. Sustained cooperation could help align curricula with workplace requirements, strengthen quality assurance and assessment, and expand appropriate academic progression opportunities for TVET graduates.
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Extracted from Monitor. 01 November 2026 | In a bid to curb rising youth unemployment, the Uganda Vocational and Technical Assessment Board (UVTAB) has partnered with religious leaders to promote vocational skills training across the country. Speaking during a consultative meeting with representatives of various religious denominations at the UVTAB offices in Kyambogo, Kampala, on October 30, the Executive Secretary of UVTAB, Mr. Onesmus Oyesigye, called on faith leaders to utilize their pulpits on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays to encourage their followers to embrace technical hands-on training as a viable pathway to job creation. "Every Sunday, Saturday, and Friday, you interface with an audience that believes in you. So we ask you to help us preach the gospel of skills- based training," Mr. Oyesigye said. "You are among our key stakeholders who can help us spread it and tackle unemployment. There are people who have so many papers, but what they need is just three months of skills training to take off and start working, yet they lack this information." He lamented the current structure of the country's theoretical education framework, noting that many graduates remain jobless despite holding academic qualifications. "Every family has a member who is unemployed. Every day, I get a call from someone asking me for a job which I don't have, but I guide them to opt for skilling. Some of them take my advice and create for themselves jobs, while those who question and undermine skilling remain jobless and frustrated," Mr. Oyesigye added. "The way our formal education system was structured is vague. You find a Civil Engineer not knowing what to do." To address the recurring issue of skills mismatch cited by employers, the government is shifting university and tertiary education from knowledge-based training to Competence-Based Education and Training (CBET). The implementation of CBET is scheduled to officially commence in the 2027/2028 academic year to ensure graduates align with labor market demands. Acknowledging that Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) can be costly, Mr. Oyesigye revealed that UVTAB is proposing to the government that TVET education at the lower levels (Level One and Level Two) be made tuition-free to widen access. He also appealed to parents to stop viewing vocational training as a last resort for academic failures, urging them to direct educated but unemployed youth toward short-term vocational courses. "If you have a son or a daughter who acquired qualifications through formal education but has been moving around with envelopes for the last five years or so looking for formal jobs without success, encourage them to go for skilling in some of these institutions. Three to six months of training is enough for someone to get employment," he explained, describing the growing number of unengaged youth as a "lifetime bomb." Official records indicate that out of Uganda's predominantly young population-where over 70 percent are under the age of 30-about 5.25 million Ugandans aged 18 to 30 (50.9 percent) are Not in Employment, Education. or Training (NEET). Welcoming the initiative, Rev. Daniel Token Wejuli, a programme specialist for spirituality and mindset change at the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU), affirmed that faith platforms reach over 25 million believers weekly, making clergy effective agents for mindset "We have been scratching the back of the government to have something for young people, and we believe that tackling unemployment starts with skilling Ugandans," Rev. Wejuli said. "Our colonial masters deliberately hid the real economy from us by introducing a theoretical education system. We are just trying to undo what they designed, but we need to take skilling seriously to create jobs." Highlighting the economic strain caused by joblessness, Mr. Moses Kasagwa, the Executive Director of the TVET Council, noted that expanding vocational education would lower the country's high dependency burden, which currently stands at 83 percent. "Your support will bring glory to the country. Currently, almost every Ugandan has a dependant, some of whom are adults. About 50 percent of the youth linger around because they have nothing to do," Mr. Kasagwa explained. To further ease entry into vocational training, Dr. Wilfred Nahamya, UVTAB's Deputy Executive Secretary in charge of assessment, noted that the primary requirement for enrolling in certain skills programmes is simply showing interest. He added that UVTAB has embarked on assessing and certifying competencies for TVET graduates, including those who acquired their skills informally, to ensure standard recognition by employers.
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21 October 2026 | Experts from the Uganda Vocational and Technical Assessment Board (UVTAB) and other stakeholders are currently reviewing and developing the trainers’ and assessment guides for the lower-level curricula. The Deputy Executive Secretary in charge curriculum development and management Ms Jalia Nasaza says out of the 43 programmes that are currently undergoing a review and development process, only the five have a complete curriculum package but limited content that include building construction, carpentry and joinery, roads and bridges, draughtsmanship and plumbing Ms Nasaza made these remarks on Monday, 19th October 2026, at Arch Apartments in Kampala saying the other 30 programmes; Mechanical, Electrical, ICT, Business and Home Science programmes, have curricula but no Trainers’ or Assessment Guides. While on the other hand, three craft programmes, namely NCC in Welding, National Craft Certificate in Business Administration and Management and National Craft Certificate in Marketing Management, have none of the three components. Meanwhile, the Manager Assessment Training Packages, curriculum development and management, Ms Noeline Komugisha adds that the existing curricula and guides, including the civil programmes, need to be reviewed to align them with current industry practice and the UVTAB Curriculum Development Framework. The one-week-long content review and development training brought on board 145 participants for both craft certificate programmes and the artisan certificate programmes is being supported by the senior technical facilitators from UVTAB with the general objective of expediting the curricular review process and content development.
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