Nkuru Business and Vocational Training College opened its doors to prospective students and parents as well as local residents recently. There was much interest in the range of course available for students age 18 and up, as well as for the children who are starting at the newly-opened Kids Joy…
Nkuru-Nziza Foundation Progress Report 2019 Dear friends, Hope you have had a good start to 2019. I must first apologise for taking long to send in a report on where things are since my last visit to the UK. Your prayers and support are continuously being appreciated. We continue…
Nkuru Business and Vocational Training College has started welcoming its youngest students ever through its doors! Age 4 – 6 years, they are pupils at the Kids Joy Nursery School which has opened up in the grounds of the college, under the leadership of Teacher Rachel. The children are currently…
Ever since its inception, Nkuru Business Vocation Training College (BVTC), has been implementing the ‘Whole Brain Approach to Teaching and Learning’, and as a result seeing the benefits to the students of empowering them to learn in ways that suit their learning preferences, rather than in a single prescriptive style…
The Hair Salon at Nkuru Business Vocational Training College is open for business! Fully equipped to enable men’s and women’s hairdressing to take place, resident hairdresser Deborah is ready and waiting for the pre-Christmas rush to start. The salon’s first customer, who got a free hair treatment as a result,…
Nkuru Business and Vocational Training College has been up and running for almost 1 complete academic year now, and all is going very well. The college is pioneering some new ways of learning, particularly by Ugandan standards, utilising a Whole Brain Approach to teaching and learning, and also by giving…
A team of students and staff from St David’s College in North Wales recently spent some time at the Nkuru Business and Vocational Training College, and a good time was definitely had by all. The SDC team took out some laptops, pre-loaded with a CAD programme that will assist the…
June 4th 2018 – first day back of the new term, and not all the students had classes, but 11 were there of the 15 registered, and 4 of the staff i.e. the ones who had lessons to teach that day! Also open for the first college day was ‘Sophie’s…
Saturday March 3rd 2018 will forever be an auspicious date in the life of Nkuru-Nziza Foundation, because it was the day that the first intake of students and their parents attended the Orientation Day, to mark the opening of the Nkuru Business and Vocational Training College. Twelve students and their…
Godfrey is a 17yr old lad from Bakijjulula, the village in Mityana district where John’s dad lives, and where John is setting up the Vocational Training College (Nkuru BVTC). Education-wise he managed to complete his S4 exams, which are the equivalent to GCSE’s, but he didn’t continue on to A…
