While at the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), China pledged to offer more support to Africa in the arenas of higher education and vocational training for development. The Chinese government vowed to provide Africa with 50,000 government scholarships and 50,000 training opportunities for seminars and workshops as well as inviting 2,000 […]
Total E&P Uganda, the mastermind of the Tilenga and East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline Projects EACOP has started trainings on the first batch of students for the today welders training programme launched earlier this year. Over 200 students are targeted in the strategy and are to be divided into 8 groups of 25 for the 2G […]
Kiira Motors Corporation is to employ over 14, 000 people when it starts locally assembling vehicles. The firm has already started training some of its staff for competence certification as they prepare to begin production in 2020. Eight technical employees have been undergoing metal welding and fabrication training at Lugogo Vocational Institute for three weeks […]
Universities in Africa have developed a new model, Transforming Employability for Social Change in East Africa (Tescea), aimed at preparing undergraduates with adequate skills to enable them compete favourably in the job market. Four East African Universities; Gulu University, Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi, in Uganda, and University of Dodoma, and Mzumbe University in Tanzania. Other partners […]
Upon arrival to the Manipal hospital in India, Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Francis Zaake has been admitted to the intensive care unit, according to the MP’s wife, Bridget Namirembe. Ms Namirembe additionally said that the MP has been diagnosed with closed head injury with multiple soft tissue injuries, blunt neck injury due to tear of […]
Over 1,700 students who registered for the students’ loan scheme are to start repaying the loan as per the terms and conditions of the contract. Mr Michael Wanyama, the Higher Education Students’ Financing Board director,said that a total of 1,751 beneficiaries of the students’ loan scheme have finalized with their studies and are expected to […]
IntraHealth International Medicine & Pharmaceutical Job Summary To view full job profiles and submit applications online, visithttp://www.intrahealth.org/section/careers Minimum Qualification: Bachelor Experience Level: Mid level Experience Length: 2 years Job Description Deadline of this Job: 7th September 2018 JOB DETAILS: IntraHealth International (www.inlrahealth.org) is currently seeking to recruit candidates for USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance […]
Medequip (U) Limited Medicine & Pharmaceutical Job Summary Provides guidance and assistance to the Company and staff in all aspects in Customer Service Minimum Qualification: Bachelor Experience Level: Entry level Experience Length: 1 year Job Description Deadline of this Job: 10th September 2018 Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda About the Company Medequip limited is a registered […]
The Law Development Centre on Monday Sempteber 3, 2018 released the full list of applicants who have been admitted for bar course in Law. A total of 659 lawyers were admitted to the course. 624 of the admitted lawyers sat for their pre-entry in 2018 while 29 sat in 2017. Six of the students who […]
Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) and National Medical Stores are to be scrapped off and merged with other mother ministries to reduce wastage of resources. The decision was taken in two meetings with the first held on August 20 and the last one on Monday last week according to a source. The source said President […]