Makerere University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) with global electronics provider, Huawei to establish an Information Computer Technology (ICT) academy. The partnership is intended to skill Ugandans to become experts in computer technologies which have become a benchmark in economic growth. The launch was held at Makerere University main campus and was officiated by the […]
Nakayiza Grace has been elected as the Guild President African Rural University. The elections were held on Monday at the University’s main campus in Kagadi District Western Uganda. On Saturday morning while on a talk show at Kagadi Kibaale Community Radio (KKCR FM 91.7), the Electoral Commission Chairman Mrs Atugonza Phionah announced that the elections […]
Lecturers at Bishop Stuart University, a Mbarara-based University have been instigated for conducting lectures in a local dialect, Runyankole. Students allege that most lecturers, after failing to explain hard terms in English translate them to Runyankole while others adamantly turn the entire lectures into a Runyakole-language transmission. The concern of most students is since English […]
Brenda Namukasa, a Ndejje University student has been selected among the lucky winners to compete in the Port Harcout Miss University Africa pageant 2019. Namukasa proved to be the ‘only girl standing’among twelve others competitors from various Ugandan Universities and she is set to travel to Rivers State for the grand finale. “I was overwhelmed […]
Makerere University has emerged among the 20 entities who will aid Google track and monitor air pollution in capital cities and major towns. The University, under the department of Computer Science will receive over $1.3 million( Uganda shillings 4.9 billion) to finance the move to improve quality air under the ‘AirQo‘ project through the development of […]
Parliament has interrogated the Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) management over the loopholes in the accounts records sighting a lot of forged figures. This followed a report by the Auditor General John Muwanga for the financial year 2017/18 in which over sh2.9b meant for University development was returned to the Consolidated Fund accounts when it […]
 Hill City Foundation, a Nigeria non-governmental organisation has offered eleven(11) University scholarships to Ugandan students from low- income earning families. The scholarship is intended to provide mentorship, self-discovery and economic empowerment to its beneficiaries who could have been deprived due to social and financial constraints. According to the president of the foundation, Mr Obi Imemba said they […]
The Vice Chancellor of Mbarara University of Science and Technology(MUST) Prof. Celestino Obua,has decried tribalistic staff who are fighting to drive him out of office. The professor made this revelation while in an interview with PML Daily on Monday. “They are very sure that council is doing its role but what they did was intended to blackmail […]