By Andrew Irumba
Fort Portal, Kabarole: St. Leo’s College Kyegobe Old Boys Association (SLECKOBA) in association with the College administration is offering full Scholarships for 6 students in S1 and 6 in S5 for 2019 intake.
This good was revealed by the Chairperson SLECKOBA,an Association for students that went through Fort Portal based one of the oldest giant schools in Tooro sub- region.
According to the Chairman, the candidates who scored between 4 and 10 aggregates in PLE and between 8 and 16 aggregates in 8 subjects in UCE will be accorded 100% scholarships at the school.
However, the applicants have to be needy students, especially orphans. More attention would be paid to Students who lost both parents and yet scored highly as indicated above, the notice shared on the popular Bunyangabu 2017 WhatsApp group by Muganzi Richard,one of the OBs’ of the School seen by this reporter explained.
It went ahead to explain that the applicants would be vetted by a panel of selected experts.
Students are required to pick free application forms from the College starting Tuesday 22nd January 2019. S1 students are required to return their applications by Friday 01st February 2019.
Meanwhile, Oral and written interviews will be held on Saturday 2nd February 2019 starting at 9am at the College.
S5 students will be informed when to return their forms and date of interviews through the contact they will have left behind when picking the forms.
The OBs’ who have gone the school advised the successful lucky applicants to ‘Utilise the opportunity to join the boys of Muscle, Brain and Power’.
For more details please contact the Chairman Old Boys Association and Headmaster St. Leo’s College, Kyegobe on: 0772572914; 0772390455
SLECK is located approximately 5 kilometres (3 miles), South of Fort Portal town.
Historical Back Ground:
The School was founded in 1921 by the Catholic White Fathers. It was first established at what presently stands as St. Mary’s Seminary in Virika, Fort Portal. By then, it was attracting pupils from St. Peter’s Primary School and other Catholic primary schools, but in the early 1930s, the White Fathers invited the Brothers of Christian Instruction to take over from them.
In the early 1960s, the school was shifted to its current location, on a hill overlooking the plains of the Rwenzori Mountains and some parts of Fort Portal town.
St. Leo’s College Kyegobe is still among the most prestigious schools in Western Uganda and the country atlarge, because of its history, influence, excellent academic performance, and dominance in sports.
Well, here at TheSpy we refer you to get more infor. from its alumni like Crescent Baguma (RIP), Prof.Venansius Baryamureeba, Minister Tress Bucyanayandi, Minister Tom Butime, John Byabagambi , Joseph Mulenga, veteran journalist Charles Onyango-Obbo and Shaban Bantariza among others.
