Ultimate Media The Uganda National Teachers Union has today launched a quality educators project aimed at addressing challenges affecting the quality of education. The project is to kick off in northern Uganda, which has registered major challenges in terms of poor performance. The teachers’ union secretary general, Teopista Birungi says the project will help ensure that […]
Former lecturers of Makerere University Business School (MUBS) Nakawa have petitioned court challenging the appointment of the school’s principal, Prof. Waswa Balunywa. The lecturers are seeking orders directing the principal Waswa Balunywa to vacate office on grounds that his appointment was nullified in 2008 on the orders of the Inspector General of Government. Dr. James […]
The Irish Foreign Affairs minister Michael Martin has appealed to the Uganda government to focus on providing quality education to in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of Universal access to free education. Martin was speaking at a ceremony to give the Uganda government 450 billion shillings donated by the Irish Government. The […]
The Woman Member of Parliament of Pader district in Northern Uganda, Judith Akello has urged Uganda government to give higher priority to students from Northern Uganda in accessing the government loan scheme for students joining university to help them achieve university education. She says giving higher priority to Northern Uganda students will to help them […]
Uganda will host the first African Youth Forum slated for 17th to 19th July 2010 at Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel to provide the youth with an opportunity to air their views to the African leaders that will attend the African Union summit in Uganda. The Youth forum which is one of the few activities that […]
The Executive Director of the Science Foundation for Livelihoods (SCIFODE) Arthur Makara has appealed to the government of Uganda to step up its efforts in developing innovation, science and technology to ensure quick economic development of Uganda. He says the Uganda Government continues to ignore the development of the science sector through it’s policies […]
The founder of the Nyaka AIDS Ophans School in Uganda Twesigye Jackson Kaguri has appealed to the people of Ugandan to avoid getting married early and producing so many children they can’t provide for. He says producing few children will enable parents provide them adequate education which is the only ticket out of poverty. Twesigye […]
Makerere University in conjunction with Kenyatta University, University of Dar-es-Salaam, University of Siegen in Germany and the Capacity Building for Integrated Watershed Management in East Africa (WMNET) project are organizing a one week short course on the application of geographic information systems in integrated watershed management. The course is scheduled to take place from 19th […]
An official from Mbarara Ophans and other vulnerable children Mark Mwesiga has appealed to the public to renew the declining African social structures and values to ensure proper child growth. This comes a day after Uganda joined the rest of Africa to celebrate the day of the African Child with the theme, ‘Planning and budgeting […]
The Network for African Parliamentarians is carrying out campaign to have all various Parliaments in Africa come up with committees on Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) in their various Parliaments to ensure easy implementation. The MDG’s are access to universal primary education, eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, promoting gender equality and women empowerment, reducing child […]