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Over 1 million to sit Uneb exams for the first time
In two months' time, Daniel Nokrach Odongo will preside over end-of-year exams as the executive secretary of the Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb). As MOSES TALEMWA has found, the national...
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Anansi continues on this mad road. Anansi’s eyes have never seen so many things! Anansi’s ears have never heard so much noise! To pass this way requires Anansi to dodge and duck, and cross over and...
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Victoria Nile PS reopens one week after a fire
Learners return to Victoria Nile primary school today, a week after the institution’s main hall and teachers’ houses caught fire. The school main hall and two teachers’ houses caught fire last week,...
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Ugandans excel in Israeli internship programme
Another set of Ugandan students recently departed for an international agricultural internship programme in Israel. However, with this came the news that Ugandan students are excelling on the modern...
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LDC is not a torture chamber - Othembi
Frank Nigel Othembi The Law Development Centre (LDC) management committee appointed FRANK NIGEL OTHEMBI on May 1, 2012, as its director for a four-year term. Recently, his contract was renewed for a...
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Bridge schools stay but ministry has some advice
On August 17, the ministry of education and sports ordered that Bridge International Academies (BIA) close their schools ahead of the start of the third term. However, as YUDAYA NANGONZI and SIRAJE...
View ArticleAnansi runs the boys to school
“We must move forward like Africans. We must make the best of a terrible situation, like Africans. We must solve our problem, like Africans.” Justinian states proudly. Dingo Pingo agrees. “However,...
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Close non-performing private schools - report
A report by Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (Iser) has recommended that public-private partnership (PPP) schools in the country that provide poor-quality education services be closed....
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MTN in Shs 313m scholarship for girls
MTN Uganda Foundation and the Forum for African Women Educationalists Uganda Chapter (FAWE-U) recently launched the second round of university education scholarships for girls. The scheme is designed...
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Ndejje University to lead in waste disposal fight
Ndejje University has pledged to become a bridge between entrepreneurs seeking to provide solid waste solutions, and researchers who have developed prototypes to end the garbage disposal problem....
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Allied Health Institute launches electronic library
Students and tutors at Uganda Institute of Allied Health and Management Sciences (UIAHMS) in Mulago can now access at least 10,000 textbooks, reading resources, and other curriculum materials, using an...
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Meet Uganda’s first professor of journalism
The department of Journalism and Communication at Makerere University last week erupted with joy as news filtered in of the promotion of DR GORETTI NASSANGA to full professor of journalism. Marion...
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Prof Kiyimba returns to South Africa
Prof Abas Kiyimba Doctors at South Africa-based Milpark hospital today October 10 make a final decision on whether to carry out a surgery or liver transplant on Makerere’s literature Professor Abas...
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Explore opportunities beyond Uganda - Kalonzo
Graduates of Uganda Technology & Management University (Utamu) have been urged to look for employment opportunities beyond Uganda’s borders. Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, the chancellor at Utamu said...
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Kyambogo University to get new vice chancellor in January
Prof Eli Katunguka Kyambogo University will have a substantive vice chancellor by January 2017. According to the re-appointed university council chairperson, Prof John Okedi, the time frame is...
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Education, the only solution to unemployment, poverty - ADB
For years now, the education ministry has been grappling with a school dropout problem. With no immediate solutions in sight, the problem has developed into a vicious cycle as MOSES TALEMWA and PRISCA...
View ArticleO-level exams roll off
More than 300,000 senior four candidates begin their final examinations this morning from 3,453 exam centres across the country. Of these, 157,395 students attend schools under the Universal Secondary...
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Makerere honours Dr Bagoora with lecture series
Late Dr Festus Bagoora Makerere University has honoured the late Dr Festus Bagoora with a series of annual memorial lectures. Bagoora was an academician, environmental activist and civil servant. At...
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African varsities launch courses to develop skills
Prof Enos Njeru from University of Nairobi The Partnership for Africa’s Next Generation of Academics (PANGeA) has launched a new training and skills development programme, PANGeA-Ed, after a four-day...
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Prof Abas Kiyimba's health improves slightly
Prof Abasi Kiyimba Doctors at South Africa-based Milpark hospital will tomorrow October 18 make a final decision on whether to carry out a surgery or liver transplant on Makerere’s literature...
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