OLYMPIA HOSTEL Twinkling walls meet the eyes of an onlooker from a distance as one walks along Kimera road off sir Apollo kagwa road towards greater Kikoni Makerere area. This magnificent structure is home to hundreds of university students in the name of Olympia Hostel. The ambiance it paints from a distance entirely matches with […]
Former Uganda  Prime Minister   John  Patrick Amama Mbabazi has  finally gone on leave till December 31st. The former government officer  and  National Resistance  Movement  Secretary  General  sent the leave letter to the NRM party President on  Monday 20th October. According to Monitor newspaper, The letter  dated October ,20th,2014 read as follows; “As you are […]
Simply to be tempted is to be lured to eat the forbidden fruit. You remember that story in the Garden of Eden, how the serpent tricked Adam and his wife into eating the thing. The bible says mbu the thing was pleasant to the eye and good for food. But what then is the forbidden […]
Across West Africa, Ebola-related deaths are on the rise. Experts estimate that this devastating virus–which claims more than 50 percent of all its victims–has the potential to double its reach every three weeks. In the worst affected countries including Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the public health infrastructure is under strain. That is why we […]
Prof Ali Ali Mazrui has passed on today 13th October 2014. He has died aged 81. The fallen scholar will be laid to rest in Kenya. Who was Prof. Ali Al Amin  Mazrui Prof. Mazuri authored and co-authored more than 20 books and hundreds of articles in major scholastic journals and for public media. Mazrui […]
SCHOLARSHIPS: The Government of Uganda through a Loan from the African Development Fund to support the Education V Project (Support to Higher Education, Science and Technology- HEST) has contracted the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Uganda to facilitate post graduate training in Agriculture in collaboration with the Faculties of Agriculture at Ugandan Universities by […]
The International Conference in Higher Education Research and Innovation (ICHERI) is organized by the East African School for Higher Education Studies, College of Education and External Studies (CEES), Makerere University. The ICHERI is scheduled for 26th -29th November 2014 in Kampala Uganda. Changes in the environment in which universities operate have presented both opportunities and […]
Job Title:Â Financial Officer The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), established in 2004, is a consortium of 42 universities in 19 countries of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA). The organisation evolved from the Forum on Agricultural Resource Husbandry (FORUM) program of the Rockefeller Foundation. RUFORUM is registered as an International […]