Schools get app development skills
Makerere University's school of Public Health's ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) recently launched Technovation Challenge outreach in several secondary schools across the country. Started on April 2,...
View ArticleInnovators await results of Makerere’s RAN initiative
Some 20 innovative teams are waiting with baited breath as Makerere University’s Resilience African Network (RAN) prepares to announce the results of the second round of innovators' pitch for new...
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Lwengo school seeks out its old pupils
When Peace Immaculate Nansubuga was deployed to head Kikonge primary school in Kkingo sub-county of Lwengo district at the start of 2015, she did not know what to expect. She had spent hardly a year at...
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Student clubs make reusable sanitary pads
With demand for affordable sanitary towels growing, 200 students from 23 schools decided to take matters into their own hands, participating in a one-day business clubs’ exercise. The event, organised...
View ArticleKanyeihamba lectures Cavendish law students
Retired Supreme court judge George Kanyeihamba recently had a grandfatherly moment with Cavendish University Uganda students. Dubbed “Justice Kanyeihamba’s premier conversation with students:...
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Embattled Prof Magara eyeing Makerere vice chancellor job
Prof Elisam Magara A highly placed source at Makerere University has told The Observer that among the four professors who expressed interest in the position of vice chancellor is suspended don Prof...
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UCU introduces new humanities programmes
The executive director of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI), Dr Livingstone Sewanyana has commended Uganda Christian University (UCU) for introducing two new programmes in the...
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Shs 90m raised in Makerere run
It was a rainy Sunday morning, but nothing was going to dampen the mood, as ALI TWAHA joined thousands of Makerere University students and well-wishers in a run to raise funds for the Students' Centre,...
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'Private sector should finance skills training'
Less than a kilometre from Kalungami trading centre in Iganga district stands what should be Nabitende Vocational Training Institute. But, as ABUBAKER MAYEMBA found, the entire project was abandoned...
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Schools increase fees, govt threatens action
For some parents, the second term will start in one week's time with the added pain of paying extra for tuition. However, as MOSES TALEMWA reports, there is the added threat of action for the affected...
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