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Following two days of bloody strikes at Uganda’s premier University, Makerere administrators have held a closed door meeting with students’ leaders in a bid to come up with a solution and restore calm to the institution. In the meeting where Vice Chancellor Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe and Guild President Papa Were were
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Students of International University of East Africa IUEA in Kasanga and other partygoers were left begging for more after a massive thrill at the Club Dome event that was held at the University’s parking lot on Friday night (September 22, 2017). With a great turnout, the venue was fully parked by
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Digital content and devices are reshaping the way teachers teach and students learn, it is in this light that KCB Bank Uganda has donated 10 kindle fires to Muni University. The Kindles are expected to enhance teaching and learning through the seamless use of digital technologies at the science based university. Speaking
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Four months since they were awarded degrees and diplomas at a colourful four-day ceremony, 14,897 ‘graduates' are yet to receive their academic transcripts and certificates. Some 100 of these ‘graduates’ have now petitioned the university over the issue, demanding that their transcripts be immediately issued. They have threatened “action” that could "ruin
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Just over 60 per cent of the money that the office of Makerere University bursar sent to the College of Education and External Studies (CEES) to facilitate students’ school practice has disappeared in thin air. According to the December 2016 university bursar's report, the university disbursed Shs 993m to the college. However,
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Makerere University has released the list of students that have been admitted to pursue their law degrees under the government scholarship programme. Some 38 students have been admitted under the direct entry category – having completed A-level last year – while only two have been admitted under the mature age entry
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Makerere University is one of the institutions which have failed to fully utilise its FY 2016-17 budgetary allocations. According to a report by the Education Committee of parliament, the education ministry has failed to spend Shs 85.1bn. In the same financial year, Makerere failed to use Shs 12.56bn while Kabale University failed
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Remanded Makerere University Students have petitioned the Buganda Road Court Chief Magistrate, James Eremye over what they referred to as Judicial Misconduct by Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu. The four, including Edmond Kahiigi, Stephen Ariho, Roy Rugumayo and Hannington Mugarura who are accused of inciting violence have been denied bail twice, an act
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It is undeniably true that the strength of any country lies within the education of its youth. Many underprivileged students never complete an education to the level of university. It is for this reasonthat the Madhvani Foundation scholarship programis offering 700million shillings. This golden opportunity to underprivileged but brilliant students
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Grief filled family and friends of Agnes Nambassa, a former Makerere Masters student who emerged the best in her class following her death on Friday morning. Nambassa who graduated in February 2017 with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration has been working with Centenary Bank as a Loans Officer. She was pregnant
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