The Minister of education, Valentine Uwamariya has urged private schools including Higher Learning Institutions to leverage the national recovery fund so as to keep teachers on the payroll amid Covid-19 crisis.

She urged higher learning institutions to diversify source of funds to support operations once schools re-open in September, 2020.

Meanwhile, the Minister told The New Times that universities that had taken online learning support as an alternative to ordinary teaching and learning model have been warned.

She said that for any institution to operate a fully-fledged online distance-learning model as an alternative to normal teaching and learning should apply for accreditation.

"Even University of Rwanda has not yet got such accreditation and therefore it is not allowed to take online support as an alternative to normal teaching.