Makerere University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe (pictured) has expressed disgust over the continued non-use of their innovations despite the need in the country.Picking on the low–cost medical ventilator that researchers studied early into the COVID-19 pandemic before the country was hit hard in the just ended spike, Nawangwe said the
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A pupil listening to a radio lesson. The Ministry of Education and Sports has rolled out another round of radio programs, as part of its efforts to ensure continuity of learning during school closures. This time around, the lesson will be taking care of learners in Primary Six and all
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Makerere Main Building Makerere University Senate has left individual college academic committee boards to decide how to conduct end of semester examinations. This follows findings by an online survey by the University Guild indicating that 50 percent of the students prefer physical exams. Only 13 percent of the 3884 respondents selected
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Finance Minister Kasaija (L) appearing before MPs on Parliament’s Trade and Tourism Committee The Minister of Finance, Matia Kasaija has urged owners of private schools that are losing their schools to bank loans to sell part of their assets and repay the loans. Kasaija made the remarks while speaking to journalists
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Samuel Ssegawa, 31, abandoned boda boda riding for studies. He scored 15 aggregates at Hilton High School. Samuel Ssegawa, a 31-year-old man, a resident at Kyetume, Mukono was one of the lucky candidates who passed with flying colours in the recently released Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) by Uganda National Examination Board on Friday.
Read MoreThe police have arrested a conman who has been fleecing money from headteachers, just hours to the release of the results of the 2020 Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) examination results. The suspect identified as James Bubumbi, a resident of Kasubi, a Kampala suburb has been arrested from Kyegwegwa District from where
Read MoreFrom left, Wilbert Ayebazibwe from Directorate of Quality Assurance KIU, Fouziya Sooma Public Relations Manager Huawei Uganda, Jean Gao Deputy Managing Director Huawei Uganda, Assoc. Prof. Janice Busingye, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Finance and Administration KIU, Dr. Margaret Kareyo, Dean School of Mathematics and Computing (SOMAC) and Obinna Osigwe from Directorate of
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Dr Asuman Lukwago , the Secretary of the Education Service Commission The Ministry of Education and Sports has cautioned about a fake advert circulating on different platforms to the effect that the government is recruiting teachers to be deployed in different districts.The said advert has been calling applicants for vacancies
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IUIU main building The High Court in Kampala has dismissed an application filed by two lecturers from Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) seeking interim orders to block the appointment of Dr. Adnan Ali Adikata as the Director of IUIU Kampala Campus and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mass Communication. They also
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More than 60,000 candidates in Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools failed the 2020 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). The results released on Friday indicate that a total of 74,878 candidates totally failed the examination and therefore were not graded. This represents 10.2 percent of the total number of candidates who sat
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