University students in South Africa have stormed the streets to protest against the failure of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) to pay allowances. According to the South African Unions of Students (SAUS) president, Misheck Mugabe, students at the universities of Venda, Limpopo and Mpumalanga were already on strike, while students at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan […]
Makerere University has won the East African Universities debate(EAUD)Â 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The University of Kisubi, in partnership with Carlow University, US, has set-up a special programme to train teachers of children with special needs. The decision was communicated by the dean of the Faculty of Education, Sister Dr Elizabeth Nakayiza on Friday during a tour she and fellow university lecturers made to various schools in Entebbe and […]
Makerere staff members under their umbrella Forum for Staff Associations, have decried the university administration to stop their nepotic tendencies. The associations which includes Makerere University Academic Staff Association (Muasa), Makerere Administrative Staff Association (Masa) and the National Union of Educational Institutions, contends that there is a lot of anomalies in the way staff are appointed, […]
The administration at Soroti University  has been left puzzled after the  National Council for High Education (NCHE), for the second time, stopped the opening of  of the university over failure to meet minimum requirements. The university had already issued out a list of its course and was planning to admit its pioneers this academic year in August. However, it […]