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Anti-FGM campaigners use schools to fight vice
Schools in the Sabiny sub-region are championing a cultural behavioral change to eradicate the female genital mutilation (FGM) practice. FGM is the painful removal of the external female genitalia for...
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Ministries, Unatu differ over head teachers' fate
Teachers celebrated the World Teachers’ day in style Ministry of Education and Sports officials say the scheme of service for primary schools was misinterpreted by education stakeholders, writes...
View ArticleCode week to impart IT skills on students
The Irish embassy has launched the Africa code week in Uganda, a digital literacy initiative. The one-week initiative will be held at Makerere University with the aim of fostering digital literacy and...
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Janet cautions universities on compliance
Education minister Janet Museveni has called for universities and tertiary institutions to ensure that they provide quality and relevant higher education that leads to the employability of graduates....
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Kabale varsity still in turmoil despite Janet’s intervention
The hope to calm unending strikes by lecturers and students at Kabale University is not yet visible, despite the intervention of the education ministry. The university has been embroiled in strikes by...
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Kyambogo University needs more staff
Kyambogo University acting vice chancellor Prof Eli Katunguka-Rwakishaya is seeking government support to increase its staffing levels. Katunguka says that in 2006, the university academic staff...
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Meet Roy Ssembogga, guild president pushed by a retake
Roy Ssembogga should be a medical doctor today, after he completed his five-year programme at Makerere, early this year in January. As BAKER BATTE LULE found, Ssembogga still has to pass a course he...
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Top dons campaign for review of A-level
Graduands rejoice after completion of studies. Many end up unemployed The Uganda Vice Chancellors' Forum says two years is a short time for students to decide their career paths, leading to the high...
View ArticleOver 400 schools not inspected in Luweero
More than 400 schools in Luweero district are not inspected every school term due to lack of funds. The area inspector of schools, Hajji Uthman Kamoga, revealed that the district receives between Shs...
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Fulbright scholarship marks 70 years
The US Fulbright Scholar programme, which offers grants for teaching, study and research in America, recently marked 70 years of existence. Speaking at the celebrations at Makerere University last...
View ArticleIceme Girls SS to connect students to role models
Oyam-based Iceme Girls SS will next year start partnering its students with national role models through a new apprenticeship programme, as a way of ending the school dropout rate. The school head...
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Revise up to the last moment - Supreme mufti
The supreme mufti, Sheikh Siliman Kasule Ndirangwa, has asked pupils preparing for this year’s Primary Leaving Exams (PLE) to continue revising even after he has prayed for them. Sheikh Ndirangwa who...
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Vodafone’s Powertab seeks to replace textbooks
This is rapidly becoming the year when several people are trying all manner of innovations to drive the technology and environmental front. These include efforts to move away from traditional things...
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MTN donates Shs 300m to curriculum digitisation
The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) has joined the MTN Uganda foundation to support plans to digitize secondary school learning materials. According to a statement, the initiative is...
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Lawyers compete for innovation prize
When one thinks about innovative boot camps, the idea is usually of scientists devising new ways of resolving old problems. However, the 2016 Innovating Justice Boot camp changed that notion, when it...
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When students shine a ray of hope
A chance visit to Bishop's primary school in Mukono has changed the lives of learners there and at Uganda Christian University. SHARON MUWANGUZI has been studying an initiative by the UCU students that...
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SOCCERMATICS: Using Maths to explain football
Over the last three years, Abdu Sewaali, a boda boda rider based in Wandegeya, has been betting some of his money on European football. One would think that after losing for several weeks, he would...
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Bring extra money, hostel owners tell Makerere students
A week after the probe committee on Makerere University started work, it has become clear that the institution could reopen at the end of February 2017, at the earliest. CHRISTOPHER TUSIIME has been...
View ArticleEditorial: When one parent makes good use of the holidays
Over the last two years, Agnes Nakibuuka was the stereotypical parent of two teenagers (now aged 13 and 15), always fretting the holidays. She worried what her two daughters got up to during the...
View ArticleGlobal citizenship education could be the answer to good learning
Imagine a computer literacy teacher or criminal justice system lecturer in any school or university abusing individuals in his class using foul language. Words like, “You two fools.” Stupid! You are...
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