Education

By Our reporter MAKERERE – Tensions are rising within Makerere University’s top management following the University Council’s refusal to approve the Senate’s recommended candidate for the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of Finance and Administration. The latest clash is pitting the University Vice-Chancellor Professor Barnabas Nawangwe against several senators. Nawangwe even removed some of […]

By Our reporter KAMPALA _ The Head of the State House Investors Protection Unit (SHIPU), Col. Edith Nakalema has met and held discussions with officials from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)- Uganda Chapter. During a meeting held at SHIPU offices in Kampala, Col. Nakalema thanked the association members for their efforts in helping […]

By Our reporterPARLIAMENT – Consideration of the Uganda National Kiswahili Council Bill, 2023 stalled for a second time during a plenary sitting held on Monday, 14 October 2024.While chairing the sitting, the Speaker, Anita Among, tasked the Ministry of Education and Sports, and the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, to harmonise their positions […]

By Our reporterMAKERERE – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has officially reopened the reconstructed Makerere University Ivory Tower building. The Ivory Tower, the University’s main administrative building, caught fire on the night of September 20, 2020. The newly reconstructed Main Building includes a fascinating basement museum, an expanded administrative wing, a dedicated service wing, and a […]

PARLIAMENT – Makerere University leadership has proposed enhancement remuneration of teachers to be included in the National Teachers Bill, 2024.The call was made on Tuesday, 01 October 2024 during a meeting between the Committee on Education and Sports with officials from public universities, the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) and the Ministry of Education […]

Victoria University Director Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia with Academic Registrar Prof. Arthur Ahimbisibwe and Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Dr. Harry Mimi, ahead of the graduation ceremony KAMPALA, UGANDA  —Victoria University has hosted its 8th graduation ceremony at Speke Resort Convention Centre, with over 1,471 students graduating in various academic disciplines. The ceremony, officiated […]

PARLIAMENT – Lawmakers have demanded that the Ministry of Education and Sports pays salaries of part-time teaching staff of Kyambogo University.The beneficiaries include those who were discontinued and others who are still teaching but have deligently pushed on for several months without pay.   The matter that was raised by Workers’ Representative, Hon. Margaret Rwabushaija during […]

By Our reporter KAMPALA – The Head of the State House Investors Protection Unit (SHIPU), Col. Edith Nakalema has told academicians to find solutions to the recurring burden of youth unemployment in Uganda. According to Col. Nakalema, the rampant unemployment rate in Uganda exacerbated by corruption levels and the failure for the youth to access […]

PARLIAMENT – Government has been put to task over the delay in release of the capitation grants to schools with legislators noting that these often reach when the learning institutions have closed.According to Hon. Joseph Ssewungu (NUP, Kalungu West County), the Ministry of Finance has not availed the capitation grants in time despite Parliament’s guidance […]