Uganda, May 8 -- Private health training institutions have welcomed the new Technical and Vocational Education and Training, TVET, Act, 2025, calling it a major step toward streamlining health worker training, assessment, and regulation under a single national framework.

However, health education experts and sector players warn that delays in issuing registration and recruitment guidelines could stall the hiring of health tutors countrywide.

Speaking during the annual general assembly of the Medical Education Association of Uganda in Kampala today, the association chairperson, Mr Aeron Namaasa, said the law reorganises the TVET system by bringing all training providers under one coordinated structure, but stakeholders need sensitisation...