The National Private Education Institutions Association (NPEIA) wants government to pay salaries for teachers in private schools for at least a year if there are no plans to reopen the learning institutions.
"We pray that the government considers paying salaries for private school teachers for at least one year," Mr Hasadu Kirabira, the officer-in-charge of national research at NPEIA, said.
The team told the committee chaired by Ms Syda Bbumba (Nakaseke North, NRM) that private schools across the country employ 360,000 teachers who earn a salary totalling to about Shs90b a year with an average monthly net pay of Shs400,000 per teacher.
While asking government to consider reopening schools for the second term to run between August to October and third term through November to January, the private school owners also asked Parliament to create a fund through which they will access low interest loans to be able to recover from the negative impact of the pandemic.
Ms Bbumba asked the private schools to take advantage of the e-learning system that has been used during the lockdown so that they are able to persevere with the changes the pandemic is causing to the education system in the country.
