Uganda Martyrs University students are stranded as their hostel is to be taken by the Bank after the owner failed to pay a loan he got. Imagine starting your new semester all excited, only to be told you have to leave your hostel in just 7 days. That’s exactly what around 230 students are going […]
Makerere University, Uganda’s leading university, has been ranked among the top 1000 universities in the world by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) in rankings announced Tuesday. 20,531 institutions were ranked, and those that placed at the top made the Global 2000 list. Background on Makerere’s Decline Back on April 29, 2023, Makerere University […]
Makerere University has suspended an associate professor, who recently led a doctoral student in seeking the intervention of Education minister and First Lady, Ms Janet Museveni. Dr. Jude Ssempebwa, a lecturer at Makerere University, has been suspended by Vice Chancellor Barnabas Nawangwe for seeking the intervention of the country’s First Lady in a dispute with his superiors. According to […]
Makerere University usually admits 14,000 private undergraduate students each academic year. In the Academic year, Makerere reduced undergraduate admissions by 1,200, which also happened in the Academic yr 2022/2023, and the same is happening in the Academic yr 2023/2024. The numbers to be slashed are of undergraduate students pursuing diplomas or first degrees in humanities […]
Kabale University has been authorized to Carry Out Research Protocols. UNCST (The Uganda National Council for Science and Technology) has accredited Kabale University Research Ethics Committee-KAB-REC to carry out an ethical review of research protocols. The primary objective of KAB-REC is to evaluate the scientific and ethical aspects of proposals and protocols submitted to the […]
Makerere University management has extended the suspension of the 15 per cent annual tuition increment policy for another period of two years. The policy, which started in the 2019/2020 academic year, was later halted in 2021 in light of the outbreak of Covid-19. The Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Professor Umar Kakumba, announced on […]
The Deputy Vice Chancellor (Finance & Administration), Mrs. Anny Katabaazi Bwengye has called on student leaders at KAB to be transformational leaders who are able to identify what is best in individuals and utilize it. “Every person has a ‘sun’ in them, let it shine! Good leaders establish the capabilities of their people and capitalize on them to get […]
On Monday afternoon the 13th of March 2023, the Vice Chancellor of Makerere University, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, commissioned the state-of-the-art fire detection and protection system for Senate Building, one of the buildings that houses the academic documents and records for the University. The Vice Chancellor pointed out that, learning from the horrific incident when the Main Building […]