The Makerere University College of Humanities and Social Sciences on Thursday 23 August, 2013, received a Shs3.2 billion grant known as the early career scholars programme from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. According to Dr Edgar Fred Nabutanyi, the career scholars programme coordinator, the money is supposed to nurture a new generation and community of scholars who […]
Makerere University has launched a ten (10) hectares forest plantation training facility in Masindi to help students especially those attached to Agriculture familiarize with how nature works. The piece of land was donated to the University by Nyabyeya Forest College (NFC) Principal Mr Godfrey Akabonabona, on August 15, 2018 with an aim of enhancing practical […]
Makerere University student identified as Print Martha has pledged to strip Naked and move to the streets to demonstrate unless something is done about Bobi Wine’s release. Martha used the campus whatsapp and Facebook groups to call upon her fellow Makerere ladies to show their braverly against the arrest of Kyadondo East Member of Parliament […]
African Rural University (ARU) in Kagadi District is holding its Orientation programmes for the new students for the academic year 2018/2019. Â The university for female students made it a culture to give new insights to students who were admitted at the Bunyoro based University. ARU’s orientation programme runs for five days. This new semester, the […]
A Makerere University student has escaped with severe injuries as he tried to rescue Mitchel hall speaker from attackers during Baazar. Katerega a second year student of Education. His shove him with a metallic stove which cracked his head causing alot of bleeding. At the time the student was rushed to hospital, he was unconscious […]
The Director of Makerere University Gender and Mainstreaming, Dr. Euzobia Mugisha Baine has advised freshers to desist against sexual harassment and be ambassadors of virtual while at the university. Mugisha said this while addressing new students at the University Freshers’ Orientation held in the freedom square on August 6, 2018 of new students for the […]
Makerere University Vice Chancellor,Prof Barnabus Nawangwe has suspended three students for allegedly planning to stage a demonstration over the recent tuition increment. The suspended students are Kituno Daniel,Dhabona Jobs and Kigula Samuel students from the college of education and external studies, college of humanities and social sciences and college of health science respectively. In a letter […]
Makerere staff members under their umbrella Forum for Staff Associations, have decried the university administration to stop their nepotic tendencies. The associations which includes Makerere University Academic Staff Association (Muasa), Makerere Administrative Staff Association (Masa) and the National Union of Educational Institutions, contends that there is a lot of anomalies in the way staff are appointed, […]