About the project
CABUTE is a seven‑year project (2021–2027) dedicated to research‑based capacity building in Ugandan teacher education under the NORAD‑funded NORHED II programme.
The project is designed as a collaborative partnership between teacher educators and researchers in Uganda and Norway, responding to an urgent need for capacity development in Uganda’s higher education system. CABUTE encompasses four key subject areas within teacher education: English, General Education, Mathematics, and Music.
CABUTE addresses a critical national need for strengthened competence among teacher educators in Uganda. This need is underscored in the Teacher Policy Programme (2019), which states that all staff teaching in Bachelor-level teacher education programmes must hold at least a master’s degree. Currently, more than 80% of tutors in the National Teachers’ Colleges possess only a bachelor’s degree, even though these colleges are now mandated to educate teachers at the Bachelor of Education level. Uganda therefore faces a significant challenge: upgrading teacher educators across the entire higher education sector to the master’s or PhD level, while also providing professional development that equips university faculty with modern, transformative pedagogical approaches.