University Football League: Kyambogo university 1-2 MUBS
Kyambogo 1-2 MUBS: Makerere University Business School football team has beaten Kyambogo University 2-1 in a game played at the Maroons Stadium, Luzira.
MUBS’ two goals were scored by Davis Kasujja and Moses Kifumba.
Sejemba Sharif scored for Kyambogo University football team in the 85 minute.
MoneyGram Man of the Match award was given to Moses Kifumba of MUBS.
3rd Annual HESN Photo Contest 2015
Every summer, students and faculty from the eight Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) Development Labs venture out into the world, serving as ambassadors of science and innovation to partner with communities and tackle the world’s toughest development challenges.
Our network engages in a variety of activities, from innovation design summits to conducting rigorous research to broaden our understanding of modern-day development.
The HESN Photo Contest is an opportunity to showcase our network’s stories. All photos are uploaded onto the Global Development Lab’s Flickr album for the public-eye to see.
Last year’s album was seen by over 6,000 viewers!
This year’s prizes are:
- First place: $500
- Second place: $300
- Third place: $150
Additionally, your photo has the chance to be featured (with credit) on USAID’s website and public outreach documents.
The contest closes on October 4th – apply now!
Submission guidelines:
- Accepted formats: high quality JPG and PNG
- High-resolution photos that are at least 1600 pixels long, which is about 200 pixels per inch (ppi). Please send us the highest resolution version of the photo you have (at least 1 MB).
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If you are using Photoshop, please send only level 7 or higher compressed photos.
- Only 3 photos per contestant will be accepted; if you submit more than 3, photo contest administrators will choose 3 for you
- Photos must each be an original submission (submitted by photographer or with permission)
- Photos must each include a credit: name of photographer and Development Lab affiliation (if applicable), and the names of any people featured in the photograph.
- Photos must have a caption, which includes a description of what is going on in the photo, who is involved, where and when it was taken (country tag is especially important), and how it is a part of or relates to HESN
- Photos should tell the story of HESN, the photographer, and his/her accomplishments
To submit a photo, please send the photo(s) attached and required information to HESNphotos@gmail.com. Photo submissions due by Sunday, October 4th.
Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa Research Grants for Masters students
The Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa (CTCA), hosted by the School of Public Health (MakSPH), College of Health Sciences (CHS), Makerere University and serves as the regional center of excellence to support African governments implement tobacco control policies and programs, with a vision of a sustainable, leading center in empowering and facilitating tobacco control policy and programme implementation to achieve tobacco-free Africa.
The Center will be supporting one-year tobacco control research grants for Masters Students for the next three years with funding from Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
The Project will be implemented through the 6 schools of public health in the Public Health Alliance1 including:
1. Moi University in Kenya
2. Jimma University in Ethiopia
3. Muhimbili University in Tanzania
4. National University of Rwanda in Rwanda
5. Makerere University in Uganda
6. University of Nairobi in Kenya
The research grant is meant to support students enrolled for Masters on programs such as economics, agro-economics or environment and Taxation who have interest in pursuing research in tobacco control.
The purpose of the research grant is to provide evidence for tobacco control policy and legislation for governments in Africa and the objectives include:
1. To build capacity for research in tobacco control in Africa
2. To Contribute to the tobacco control Research agenda in Africa
3. To develop tools and document best practices for policy and legislation
Eligibility
The following categories of students are eligible to apply:
1. Students should be enrolled on any of the listed Master’s programs in the 6 Universities
2. Student starting their second year are eligible for the grant 2015/2016
3. Proposals that follow the research proposal requirements will be awarded
4. Only proposals focusing on the articles listed in section two will be reviewed for award.
Please see Downloads for details on Eligibility Criteria, Application Form, as well as other useful information
Submission and Notification Dates for the Research Proposals
The call for this year 2015/2016 will open from 1st October 2015 and close on the 28th of February 2016. Research proposals shall be submitted to: ctca@ctc-africa.org. Only Successful applicants will be notified and any applicant that will not be notified after one month of the stipulated deadline should consider his or her application unsuccessful.
Awards and funding
The research projects will involve: data review, data collection, data entry, cleaning, analysis and report writing. The scholarship grant shall in addition support costs of local travel, equipment (related to data collection such as recorders), stationery and dissemination of results.
The total grant award for each student will not exceed $7000 and will be awarded discretionary. Research grants will be subject to the avail-ability of funding.
Contact Person
Further inquiries should be send to ctca@ctc-africa.org and; mugyenyip@ctc-africa.org; nyamurungik@ctc-africa.org.
You can download the documents below for more information about the research grants for masters students.
Livingstone International University: Lighting university education through E-Learning
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Established in 2011 with the aim of transforming Africa through quality, Christ-Centered Higher Education, Livingstone International University is focused on realizing the dream by emphasizing e-learning and m-learning.
The university uses Kindles and tablets for e-learning.
Mr. Henery Buregea Bin Rwakenda, the acting Vice Chancellor at Livingstone International University says a Kindle is an electronic personal eBook reader that enables students to interact with their trainers, download academic materials, read e-books and other digital media via a wireless network.
“We are the first University in Uganda and East Africa to start the use of a kindle as a teaching and study device for students and lecturers”, Mr. Henery Buregea says.
He says the University is partnering with Carnegie on a Research Collaboration to Evaluate Kindle implementation under the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program which is managed and administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE) in partnership with Quinnipiac University.
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program is a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions.
“In June 2015, over 25 lecturers of Livingstone International University underwent a six weeks e–learning and m–learning training aimed at leveraging the power of E–learning and M–learning for teaching, research and study”, Mr. Henery Buregea says.
He adds that the programme is also focusing on evaluation of Kindle implementation and curriculum development to improve the utilization of local and online digital resources as a new way of learning.
“We are in the 21st century and we have to forego the traditional ways of teaching and adopt the technological methods that can widen the students’ access and engagement to academic materials in a friendly way that is interactive”, say Mr.
Henery Buregea.
He says the university passed a policy that requires all students to own a kindle or a tablet. A kindle is sold at 100 US dollars while each tablet goes for 200 US dollars.
The university that opened in January 2012 with 37 students has since then grown to a student population of over 150 students.
The pioneer graduates were passed out in July 2015. Mr. Henery Buregea is happy to say that the university has had a chance of seeing some of her students being employed by different companies before they are even passed out.
Though founded on Christian principles, Mr.
Henery Buregea says in education there is no religious discrimination and Livingstone International University accommodates students of all religious sects.
Seating on 56 acres of land, the University plans to emphasis more practical courses that are relevant to the economy.
“We want to engage more in Agriculture, Medicine, Computer Science and Mobile Technology, Eco – tourism, material engineering that we believe can empower students with skills for job creation and not think of job seeking”, Mr.
Henery Buregea says.
Mr. Henery Buregea however says all is not well given the limited finances.
“We need to set up well equipped faculties for media technology, a library that is technologically oriented, and also develop the 56 acres of land the university owns but the current funds are inadequate, we need hug funds of about 10 million dollars to fully realize our dream”.
He says the university is solely depending on students’ fees and donors.
The Ugandan government is not extending any financial aid to this newly promising university in the country whose target is to become the leading first class university in Africa.
The truth behind 134 Uganda Revenue Authority job opportunities
The Campus Times has been running a post advertising 134 Job opportunities at Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) which URA is calling a scam.
The truth is that these jobs appeared on the website of URA.
Here is the link of the Google cache that shows that the jobs were actually posted on the URA website on September 20th, 2015
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?
q=cache:oc7CtBICxOQJ:https://careers.ura.go.ug/Default/Opportunities+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk
The Campus Times as a responsible media house that is mindful about unemployment in Uganda could not fail to share the good news about these job opportunities.
But we are wondering why URA is saying this is a scam yet they know these jobs appeared on their website. How did the jobs appear on the URA website? The website and communication officials need to explain this anomaly.
The statement on the URA website denouncing the 134 jobs reads in part…….”This is to bring to your attention that there is a SCAM URA ADVERT spreading on social media and on the site called “Campus Times” with 134 vacancies…..”
Surprisingly Uganda Revenue Authority even went ahead to edit the web page where the jobs were first published on their website forgetting that Google cache that tracks the history of websites exists.
Please, can someone responsible at Uganda Revenue Authority explain what is happening??
