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The Law Development Centre (LDC) 2017/2018 Bar Course Pre-Entry Examination results have been released by the law council. 1812 students sat the pre-entry exams on 1st August this year but according to the just released results, only 840 passed (representing 45% of the total number) while the rest of the (55%)
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Makerere University and Makerere University Business School (MUBS) have released a full list of students admitted on private sponsorship for the academic year 2017-2018. See the list here: Copy-of-private-admission-list-2017-2018-Final
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A report on the vice of sex for marks at Makerere University reveals damning confessions of how a lecturer abused his students by trapping them in his office. A probe committee into the issue interviewed eight female students. At least six of these interviewees have pinned their lecturer of sleeping or
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Incoming Makerere University vice chancellor Prof Barnabas Nawangwe has vowed to decisively deal with the issue of sex for marks. Sex for marks is a vice where lecturers award marks to students in exchange for sex. Common among male lecturers and female students, the practice has cast haunting shadows on the university's
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Outgoing Makerere University vice chancellor John Ddumba-Ssentamu has congratulated his deputy Prof Barnabas Nawangwe on his win as the most probable candidate to replace him. On Thursday, University Council forwarded to chancellor Ezra Suruma names of deputy vice chancellor for finance and administration Prof Nawangwe and that of ex-vice chancellor and
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A cloud of grief is hovering over UMCAT School of Journalism following the sudden death of their student Christine Nalumansi on Thursday evening. Nalumansi was knocked dead by a speeding car inside school premises at the institution’s Mbale coordinating centre where a cultural gala was ongoing. According to UMCAT Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel
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Prof Venansius Baryamureeba, one the three candidates in the race for Makerere University vice chancellor race, has described as a sham the process through which Prof Barnabas Nawangwe emerged winner. On Thursday, University council picked deputy vice chancellor for administration and architecture professor Nawangwe as their best candidate. Baryamureeba came second while
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The vice chancellor search committee has recommended Prof Barnabas Nawangwe for the job of Makerere University top job. According to the committee report released Wednesday, Prof Nawangwe, a professor of architecture and the hitherto Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Finance and administration, was ranked ahead of College of Humanities and
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Buganda Road Court has today morning (Tuesday, June 20th) halted government’s plea to check Makerere University researcher Dr. Stella Nyanzi’s mental status. Court says this will stay pending disposal of Nyanzi’s petition challenging the Mental Treatment Act of 1938. Buganda Road Chief Magistrate James Eremye Mawanda while giving his ruling noted that
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The dust raised by allegations that late educationist Prof Lawrence Mukiibi had sexual affairs with scores of his females students with whom he also sired children is yet to settle. Weeks after Prof Mukiibi’s burial, female MPs under their umbrella body Uganda Women Parliamentary Association (Uwopa) have not only urged government
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