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Makerere University has joined the South African Community and the academia world over in mourning the passing of the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University, now the latee Professor Hayman Russel Botman. The management of Makerere University and the students’ community in Kampala has described Professor Hayman Russel Botman as a great leader of […]
The Directorate of Research and Graduate Training (DRGT) in partnership with the School of Statistics and Applied Economics, College of Business and Management Sciences (CoBAMS), Makerere University will hold the PhD cross-cutting course in ‘Statistical Methods and Computer Applications 2014’. The number of spaces still available in this hand on course is only 15. […]
RUFORUM Secretariat has to announce that there are a few scholarships for PhD Plant Breeding and Biotechnology programme that are available through DAAD in region programme support. The scholarships are tenable for 2014/15 academic year at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. DAAD promotes international academic exchange as well as educational cooperation with developing countries through […]
The College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS) at Makerere University in partnership with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is organisng a workshop on “Cloud Computing” for English speaking countries in Africa. The five day conference is to be held in Kampala, Uganda from 19th – 23rd May 2014. Target audience of the […]
Makerere University Kampala has organised a three day functional lecture for teachers. The teachers’ seminar will run under the theme “Functional Language Teaching: Classroom and extended cultures.” The news statement from Makerere University indicates that the teachers’ seminar will run from Thursday, 5 June 2014 – 9:00am to Saturday, 7 June 2014 – 5:00pm. […]
Makerere University Vice Chancellor Prof. John Ddumba Ssentamu recently presided over the launch of the Concerted Fit-for-purpose PhD training in aquaculture and fisheries, a project aimed at improving food security and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Project is set to be undertaken under the auspices of the ACP-EU Co-operation Program in Higher Education. The […]
Makerere University female and male students are planning to run naked around the university premises. Our reporter Walakira Nyanzi reports that …but the security at the University ordered the students to halt the programme. The Dean of students at Makerere University, Cyprico Kabagambe says the practice of walking or running while naked is not […]
Makerere University students of school of agricultural sciences are to generate biogas from water. This was unearthed by the students on Tuesday. Moses Kyabaggu, one of the agriculture students told us that they intend to make biogas from water weed (called water hyacinth). The students say they will make biogas out of the water […]
The Uganda AIDS Commission chairperson, prof. Vinand Nantulya has attacked donors for closing Makerere University Walter Reed Project over simple issues. The US government funded HIV/AIDS vaccine research centre based at MakerereUniversity was closed on Friday after Uganda police arrested one of the professors at the project head offices over his reported envolvement in […]
A conman entered into Makerere University’s Water Reed Project offices in Kampala camouflaging as a policeman and arrested one of the professors at the university over an unknown offence. The move prompted some university staff members to run away and others to police to investigate why the professor was arrested. The police nodded no […]