Uganda’s leading higher institution of learning, Makerere University has potential to raise Shs5.3bn annually in revenue if it forms a private company, a human resource audit report has revealed. The report on the University recommends a private company so that the University taps into accommodation revenue. The report recommended to
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Makerere University has retained medical students to supplement Government team fight the deadly COVID-19 caused by the coronavirus. It should be noted that recently President Museveni directed closure of schools including higher institutions of learning. “Management agreed to the request from the Ministry of Health to retain all Clinical postgraduate
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The Ministry of Education and Sports has promised to investigate allegations that some schools are refusing to register senior four and senior six students who are not intellectually bright for Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB). The revelation was made after a complaint was raised by Winnie Kiiza (Kasese Woman MP)
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Silver Bullet, an agency that brings together multi sectoral partners who support the expansion of engineering capacity, together with Unicaf, has today announced that it will reward fifteen Science, Technology, Engineering and Innovation (STEI) university students with free access to online professional development courses this year, under its Student Development
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Members of Parliament are concerned about the poor standards of Uganda’s medical schools, arguing that recent report findings are alarming to Uganda’s health sector. This follows a report by technical health experts from the East African Community (EAC) that inspected medical and dentistry schools of various universities in the region
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Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has over the years taken a social stand to carry out Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a way of effecting social change in the communities in which it operates. This has helped build public confidence in the organization, created rapport and changed compliance behaviour within the
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The Mastercard Foundation Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning in Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) today announced the first cohort of 12 EdTech Fellows, companies that will benefit from the Centre's support to expand their operations and improve secondary teaching and learning across the continent. The Fellows were selected after
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The government will continue to roll out of the new curriculum for lower secondary school despite a resolution of Parliament halting the process. Members of Parliament on 04 February 2020 passed a motion halting the exercise citing non-preparedness stemming from training of teachers, no sensitisation and consultations. The Minister of
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Kampala based Victoria University has signed letters of intent (MoUs) with top universities from Gujarat State in India. This will see the Universities cooperate in areas of innovation, E-commerce, incubation programmes to support starts-ups and technical support to start-ups. This follows a delegation of officials from Ministry of Education and
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Three Makerere University Students have been chosen to represent Uganda in the Huawei ICT global competition which is at its regional final stage in South Africa. These top three students who were chosen on merit excelled in the preliminary and national final exams of the competition which was carried between
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