YMCA student Brian Isiko was on Thursday granted bail on a cash bond of Shs1 million by the Buganda Road Court grade one magistrate Stellah Amabilis pending the hearing of the case. Isiko is accused of sending love messages to to Kabarole district woman MP Sylvia Rwaboogo who termed them as being against her life […]
Universities’ representativesa and other participants at the launch and research agenda setting workshop of ARUA in Lagos, last week. Makerere University has entered a partnership together with other fifteen African Universities to carry out research purposed towards eradicating poverty. Through the research, the universities intend to address issues of huge unemployment and other associated problems […]
Over 1,700 students who registered for the students’ loan scheme are to start repaying the loan as per the terms and conditions of the contract. Mr Michael Wanyama, the Higher Education Students’ Financing Board director,said that a total of 1,751 beneficiaries of the students’ loan scheme have finalized with their studies and are expected to […]
Makerere University Student’s Guild leadership has rejected a 91% tuition fees increment for science courses as proposed by the University Council. This is after the student’s guild formed a committee to study the issue of tuition increment after council proposing a 91% tuition increment on given Science courses and a 45% increment on Arts courses respectively. […]
Parliament has finally passed the budget for the financial year 2018/19 worth 32.5 Trillion shillings. The passed budget includes the recurrent Expenditure of 9.4 trillion shillings, Development Expenditure of 13 trillion shilling s and statutory expenditure of 10 trillion shillings. Parliament also passed the Appropriation Bill, 2018, authorizing the public expenditure from the consolidated fund worth […]
Members of Parliament on the Government Assurances and Implementation Committee have queried the irregularities in the admission of students to Soroti Flying School. During a meeting between the Committee and the Soroti District Local Government on 19 May 2018, the Mayor of Soroti, Paul Omer, said that there are challenges of recruitment at the School, with […]
Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has warned parents in Kagadi against marrying off school-going children, saying government will not tolerate such impunity. Kadaga was presiding over a fundraising function at Mugarike Parish Catholic Church in Kagadi, were she showed her frustration over a report that the majority of girls in the area are dropping out of school […]
Parliament has approved a recommendation by the parliamentary education committee to halt the salary increment of science teacher stating that its discriminatory against arts teachers. The parliamentary committee on education and sports chaired by Connie Nakayenze Galiwanango recommended that the salary increment of the Science teachers in the financial year 2018/19 be put on halt. […]
Parliament has approved the scrapping of the pre-entry examinations for the students joining the Law Development Centre. The decision was taken following a report from the Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs based on ministerial policy statements that were submitted by different sectors to the committee including Law Development Center. The committee report noted that […]
African youths have asked governments to take serious action on the increasing teenage pregnancies and HIV/AIDs infection rates among young people. This was during the ongoing 4th Commonwealth Youth Parliament taking place in Kampala, Uganda where the young leaders blamed the increasing teenage pregnancies and HIV/AIDs infection rates among young people on poverty, lack of government […]