Advancing the ECD Teaching Profession

IREAD is in talks with the Faculty of Education at Makerere University in Kampala, one of the oldest and largest universities on the African continent, to build a teacher training college and a model ECD centre on campus. The IREAD Makerere University Centre for Excellence in Early Childhood Development has the potential to help Uganda make considerable strides in advancing the profession of early childhood educators, many of whom will have careers at IREAD ECD centres. 

Makerere University has evolved from its start in 1922 as a humble technical school to one of the largest universities on the African continent. Today, Makerere University offers 145 programmes at the undergraduate level and over 139 postgraduate programmes to a student body of about 38,000.

The project is set to be completed in 2023. Two gifts totalling $230,000 USD have already been received to build the college and a model ECD centre.