Governor Okoth Obado, a prime suspect in the Rongo University student, Sharon Otieno murder, has been granted bail of Kenyan Shillings 5 million cash. The governor was also the boyfriend to the deceased and the baby daddy to Sharon’s seven months pregnancy. The county chief is also expected to pay two sureties of a similar […]
Dr Sarah Nyendwoha Ntiro, the first woman to graduate at university level in East and Central Africa has died. Dr Nyendwoha graduated from Oxford University with a BA (Hon) in History in 1954. She has been battling several illnesses since the beginning of this year and died on Monday while being taken to Mengo hospital. […]
YMCA student Brian Isiko was on Thursday granted bail on a cash bond of Shs1 million by the Buganda Road Court grade one magistrate Stellah Amabilis pending the hearing of the case. Isiko is accused of sending love messages to to Kabarole district woman MP Sylvia Rwaboogo who termed them as being against her life […]
The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Uganda Chapter has given out 102 university and high education scholarships to students from humble families. The students are from 12 districts that register a high number of school drop outs including Mayuge, Bulisa, Bundibugyo,Kanungu, Ntoroko and Adjuman. Beneficiaries of the scholarships are 62 females and 40 males […]
Uganda Christian University on September 14, 2018 is to launch the UCU School of Medicine (UCUSoM) at the Archbishop’s Gardens in Namirembe. UCU received accreditation to teach Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBchB) and Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) in February 2018 Over 62 students, including 35 females and 27 males have been admitted to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has announced plans by Parliament to concentrate on infrastructural improvement at primary schools. At a fundraiser for Rwemiyenje Primary School in Rwampara County, Mbarara district, Kadaga said attention must be paid to structures in primary schools. “We have not quite addressed the infrastructural challenges at primary schools. We should bring a motion […]
Makerere University Student’s Guild leadership has rejected a 91% tuition fees increment for science courses as proposed by the University Council. This is after the student’s guild formed a committee to study the issue of tuition increment after council proposing a 91% tuition increment on given Science courses and a 45% increment on Arts courses respectively. […]
Parliament has finally passed the budget for the financial year 2018/19 worth 32.5 Trillion shillings. The passed budget includes the recurrent Expenditure of 9.4 trillion shillings, Development Expenditure of 13 trillion shilling s and statutory expenditure of 10 trillion shillings. Parliament also passed the Appropriation Bill, 2018, authorizing the public expenditure from the consolidated fund worth […]