Every fourth Thursday in April is International Girls in ICT Day. This initiative by the International Telecommunication Union started in 2011 with over 300,000 girls and young women have taken part in more than 9,000 celebrations of International Girls in ICT Day in 166 countries worldwide.In Uganda, as we are
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In line with the Education pillar of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, Airtel Uganda has handed over 100 goats to 50 girls in Moroto district in a bid to join in the fundraising campaign #GOATSFORGIRLS that aims at keeping young girls in the Karamoja region in school. This handover follows
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A woman from north London has been announced as the first British winner of a prize worth $1m (UShs3.6bn) for the world’s best teacher. Andria Zafirakou, an arts and textiles teacher from Alperton community school in Brent, north-west London, was presented with the fourth annual Varkey Foundation Global Teacher prize
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Makerere University has backtracked on earlier decision to abolish evening courses. On Friday, Makerere University Vice Chancellor Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe told journalists that the University Council had resolved that all new students starting with the coming Academic Year 2018/19 will be admitted to study on either the day programme
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In Uganda, 63 schools run by the Bridge International Academies, a private chain, have opened for the new academic year, the BBC reports. This is despite the government's previous insistence that the schools will remain shut. Bridge academies - supported by foundations such as those set up by Mark Zuckerberg
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Victoria University that is owned by Uganda’s richest man, Sudhir Ruparelia has taken its scholarship scheme to the grassroots so as to support the needy in rural areas access quality education. The scheme, run under Ruparelia Foundation’s “Support the Community Scholarship”, covers 50 percent of tuition fees of the students
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President Yoweri Museveni has said that a country’s human resource is greater than any natural resource and must be nurtured and protected. He said this coupled with the unity and stability of our nation is the best insurance for its people. The President was addressing the first Special Forces Command
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Child rights activists in Tanzania have criticised the arrest of five pregnant schoolgirls and their parents over the weekend, according to The Citizen. The teenagers were arrested in Tandahimba, northern Tanzania, on the orders of a local district commissioner and later released on bail, the news site adds. Gender and
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Seven teachers from five African countries have been included in the top 50 shortlist for the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize 2018. Now in its fourth year, the US$1 million (Shs3.6bn) award is the largest prize of its kind. Catherine Nakabugo from Uganda, Ayodele Odeogbola and Itodo Anthony from Nigeria,
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Stanbic Bank Uganda in partnership with Smart Toto have launched the very first Community Library and Flourishing Centre in Mpigi, aimed at promoting community literacy development at the Kaleke Kasome Children’s Centre (KAKA) in Mpigi. Stanbic Bank made a generous donation of over 3,000 books to flourishing centre which will
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