Makerere University has won the East African Universities debate(EAUD) after beating Strathmore university (kenya) at the finals. Luyombo Abass and Awino Mercy from Makerere University were crowned the best debaters in the tournament taking home the EAUD trophy. Njuguma Machara from Strathmore University in Kenya was awarded the best speaker of the tournament. The debates […]
Kyambogo University has been selected to be the venue for the independently organized TEDx Kampala event of 2018 due to take place the 20th of October. The event will mass motivational speakers; Zziwa Kennedy CEO hair by zziwa, Consolata Namagambe founder She for She, Joong Yeol Park Co-founder of Jerrybag, Sabano Peace from AIESEC, Kathleen Shannon Dorcy and […]
The new Principal of Makerere University Business School, Wasswa Balunywa, has urged new students to avoid all actions that will make them victims to the deadly disease, HIV/AIDS that have become pests to the youth in Uganda especially university students. Balunywa passed this word of caution today while addressing ‘freshers’ at the University’s Orientation program. He further […]
Activist Dr. Stella Nyanzi has removed all her ‘F’ words to disapprove Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barnabus Nawangwe‘s action of suspending three students over a suspected strike. According to Nyanzi, the action manifests a “new found form of intimidation of students that seek to oppose his way of management.” In a facebook post, She […]
The Ugandan government has agreed to pay public lecturers 29 billion Uganda shillings of the 39 billion debt they demand. On sunday August 5, 2018, lecturers held a meeting in which they petitioned the government to produce an updated salary structure to follow starting this academic year. In response, the government sent a letter that […]
Makerere University has issued out updated guidelines to be followed by the new students who wish to change a programme (Course) or various subjects. The 12-days process is to be done online starting from Monday July 30, 2018 to ending on Friday 10th August, 2018. The University registrar, Alfred Masikye Namoah, emphasized that only those students […]
The Director of Makerere University Gender and Mainstreaming, Dr. Euzobia Mugisha Baine has advised freshers to desist against sexual harassment and be ambassadors of virtual while at the university. Mugisha said this while addressing new students at the University Freshers’ Orientation held in the freedom square on August 6, 2018 of new students for the […]
Makerere University Vice Chancellor,Prof Barnabus Nawangwe has suspended three students for allegedly planning to stage a demonstration over the recent tuition increment. The suspended students are Kituno Daniel,Dhabona Jobs and Kigula Samuel students from the college of education and external studies, college of humanities and social sciences and college of health science respectively. In a letter […]