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Join Our Telegram Group Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) has announced general salary cuts of up to 90% for its staff members after they had reviewed their terms of employment amidst the Covid-19 lockdown. Hussein Lukyamuzi, the university secretary says the institution is unable to pay salaries to staff members as a result of the […]
Join Our Telegram Group Amid the looming uncertainty of whether education institutions will open or not, some commercial banks have already threatened to take on the property that school owners mortgaged as collateral security for loans. Mr. Patrick Kaboyo, the secretary for Federation of Non–state Education Institutions (FENEI) said the majority received loans from commercial […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Makerere University academic registrar, Alfred Namoah Masikye shocked the entire fraternity with an abrupt revelation that the first-year admissions for the 2020/2021 Bachelor of Dental Surgery had been suspended. In his letter, Masikye added that the decision was a result of the directive issued by the East African Medical and […]
UGANDA: The Higher Education Students Financing Board (HESFB) has introduced a new actionable plan to help girls and special needs students to pursue higher education by providing them with government loans. According to the Executive Director of HESFB, Mr. Wanyama, the board has introduced an additional five points to the female students to enable them […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the current president of Uganda has unleashed a new plan for all students to access education at home. In his presidential address on Monday 22nd June, the president updated the country on the status of Covid–19 and the different measures that will hopefully tame the spread of the pandemic, including what […]
Uganda’s Ministry of Education and Sports looks forward to digitalizing all centres of vocational excellence under the Uganda Skills Development Project–USDP as one of the means to ensure online learning during and post the Covid-19 era. According to the Ministry of Education, the centres of vocational excellence includes Bukalasa agricultural College, Uganda Technical college- Elgon, […]
UGANDA: Over 70 students from a charity organization in Muyenga, Kampala Uganda, are at the point of failing to go back to school, because of the founder’s bankruptcy due to Covid-19. Mr. Emma Wanyama, founder and director of Pure Heart Organization says that most of his channels of income are blocked since he doesn’t work. […]
In light of the ongoing economic crisis, a handful of countries like Japan and Norway already began the process of slowly reopening the economy. Governments have allowed essential services all along in most countries but with deteriorating economies, it is increasingly a matter of when and not if most governments will loosen lockdown restrictions. Going […]
It has been reported that students in some Ugandan universities are stuck in their hostels, with nothing to eat. At least 300 students in Makerere university, Kyambogo university and Uganda Christian University have been trapped in their hostels since the 18th of March, 2020 when the COVID-19 lock-down started. The students could not leave and […]
There is always this discussion that women always earn less as compared to men in most jobs that they are involved in. however, that is not always the case especially in some engineering courses where women edge men on what they earn. Based on an analysis by Bloomberg, the 20 highest paying engineering courses are […]
One of the oldest universities in Africa Makerere University, has unveiled a plan to start a study course for all Boda Boda riders from June 2020 as an effort to reduce and contain motorcycle road accidents. The Boda Boda study course will be offered under the College of Education and External Studies (CEES) and is […]