Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Universities will “deeply lower” cut-off points for applicants who will be considered for government sponsorship in the undergraduate programs, according to the Joint Admissions Board-JAB. The board has through its Makerere University-based secretariate, invited students who sat for their Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) …
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Shenzhen, China | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda university students have won one of the top prizes at the recently concluded Huawei Global ICT Competition. Teams from the southern Africa region represented a great success in the competition, which lasted for one year and attracted 150,000 students from 85 countries all over …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five out of the 15 students who were arrested last week and remanded for protesting against the increased prices of various commodities in the country have been granted bail by Buganda Road Magistrates Court. The group is jointly charged together with ten others …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Academic Staff in Public Universities of Uganda (FASPU) has given the government up to March to fulfill its pledge of increasing their salary. In 2013, the academic staff demanded an increase of their salary by 100% and in 2015 President Yoweri …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Students are protesting a move that stops them from carrying bags into universities. Following the Tuesday Kampala twin bomb explosions, several officers in charge of security and the university management issued directives stopping students from carrying bags to the campus as one of the measures …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Higher institutions of learning have been asked to develop guidelines ahead of next week’s reopening. Education institutions have been closed since June following a surge in Covid-19 cases. In September, President Museveni cleared universities and other tertiary institutions to reopen on November 1. The institutions have …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is an increase in the security measures around universities following two bomb explosions in the country. Institutions of higher learning will reopen next week after months of closure following the outbreak of Covid-19. Despite universities being potential targets for terror attacks given the high …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Council for Higher Education-NCHE has advised higher institutions of learning to avoid scheduling classes for newly admitted students before handling current first-year students. Universities and other tertiary institutions will be opening their gates to learners on November 1, nearly five months after the …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The 10th NSSF-Monitor Career Expo is set to begin tomorrow and will go on for three days virtually, the NSSF Managing Director Richard Byarugaba and Nation Media Group Uganda Managing Director Tony Glencross told reporters earlier today (March 23). The two executives said COVID-19 pandemic preventive …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Student leaders are seeking to revive activism in higher institutions of learning which they say has lost vibrancy. Moses Byamugisha, the Guild President at the Law Development Center (LDC) told journalists on Friday that the government has rendered activism meaningless to the extent that there’s …
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