Janet Museveni who is the Minister for Education and Sports has asked lecturers at Makerere University to resume their work as soon as the University opens on January 19th. While speaking at the the University’s 69th graduation ceremony on Tuesday, the minister said that the government has already put up the funds to settle the […]
Makerere University‘s teaching and non-teaching staff are planning to stage another strike over failure of the University to remit their allowances. These staff allege that last month, a total sum of Shs360m allowances was paid to only the top officials in the University management. Daily monitor reported that a source, who preferred anonymity because he […]
Time Check: 8:39 am, it is Monday 3rd August 2015 at Makerere university, the University is dull and the Environment is still calm, only sounds of early morning birds and restless moving cars; people look stranded and guess what!! The non teaching staff are on strike over salary increment. I move around the main university […]
The support staff have called for a general assembly tomorrow Friday 31st  July 2015 at the University Main Building to discuss a way forward. The officials say if no positive results are seen, they will go as planned to lay down their tools starting from 3rd August 2015. According to sources privy to Campus Times, the […]
Makerere University staff have agreed to call off the strike that led to the closure of the institution on 17th August. The staff were demanding for 100 percent salary increment but the university Council has decided to raise their salaries by 70 percent from the internal budget less 30 percent of the full staff’s demands.
Gate to Makerere university There is hope that Makerere University is going to be opened soon such that both the new and continuing students report for studies. This comes after the striking Makerere university staff agreed with the University Council to put their salary demand on hold and let the university be opened first. The […]
Breaking news: Police have arrested Anna Adeke, the Guild president of Makerere university and seven other students. Adeke was marching with a group of students holding tree branches and placards to the city centre in protest of the university’s closure. The students are demanding for the reopening of the oldest public university in Uganda. Makerere […]
Makerere university has closed and students will not report for the new semester as planned. Makerere university Council resolved to close down the university on 14th August 2013. The closure follows the ongoing Makerere university staff strike over their 100% salary increment. Lectures recently vowed never to step in class until their demand is worked […]