President of Liberia, George Weah recently declared all Public universities free: COURTESY PHOTO

The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) has advised the Uganda government to borrow a leaf from Liberia and make University education free to all Ugandan students.

In a press conference held at Uganda house on Wednesday, Michael Osinde, the UPC spokesperson showed concern on the number of students admitted to higher education compared to the number of students who are given government scholarships each year.

“As UPC, we welcome the recent initiative in Liberia, where government has taken on full sponsorship of university/tertiary education at all public universities compared to Uganda, where government caters for only 4,000 university students annually.” he said.

The president of Liberia,George Weah, declared all public universities in Liberia tuition-free which Osinde believes was a good move.

“Uganda needs to take keen interest in studying how such countries are managing to achieve that grand objective and borrow a leaf from them if the country is to achieve education for all,” Osinde added.

The speaker further expressed fear at how the world is fast producing highly skilled manpower that Uganda’s education system can not produce.

“We therefore urge government to heavily invest in vocational training institutions, purposely to enhance skills development,” the UPC spokesperson remarked.

Osinde wished the primary seven candidates success in the forthcoming Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) 2018 and on this note demanded that government devises means of neutralizing the school dues to ensure a free education for all.

“UPC calls on the parents to strategically engage their children in domestic work and skillful activities, which can bring income to the family in order to address the above captioned challenge as well as mitigating the negative consequences during the forthcoming vacation,” Osinde said.

“Some have prematurely opted to leave school without attaining a PLE certificate due to teenage pregnancy, high increment in school fees among others, yet writing PLE is a fundamental step towards success,” the party mouth piece noted.

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You can download Kyambogo University Private admission list 2017/2018.

You can view the names of students admitted to Kyambogo University under the private sponsorship scheme for the academic year 2017/ 2018 by scrolling through the table below:

Kyambogo University Private Admission List for Academic Year 2017/2018 by The Campus Times on Scribd

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Students can use digital gadgets to enhance online learning.

Ultimate Multimedia Consult (UMC) is unveiling a digital learning platform (www.yaaka.cc) that will improve learning in Uganda and enable easy access to online academic materials and online classes.

What is Yaaka Digital Learning Network: The Yaaka Digital Learning Network is a digital media platform for students and trainers in pre- and primary school, secondary, tertiary and university to learn/train, mentor and share in academics, social and extracurricular activities of their interest, and to especially share and access digital academic materials in text, audio or audio-visual/video; as well as hold or attend classes on internet connected computers or on their mobile digital gadgets.

The unveiling and discussion on www.yaaka.cc will take place on Wednesday March 25^th 2015 at UMC offices on Plot 189, Ggaba Road (next to Green Valley Hotel) between 9:30am and 12pm.

The Managing Director of UMC, Gerald Businge says that while they have built Yaaka as a remarkable globally competitive digital learning platform, social network for learning and a market place of academic materials following Uganda’s syllabus across all levels of education, they still need the public expert input and review as well as views as users to make the learning platform better.

He adds that custom tablets for students to access www.yaaka.cc offline are being made.

As countries strive to achieve education related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and indeed other MDGs (as improved knowledge is necessary to achieve all), it has been noted that there is a need for expanded human learning. “Traditional methods of education and training cannot address the scope and scale of the task. Technology has already revolutionised other areas of human life and the world must now harness it to learning and teaching,” the UN said in its recent report calling for more integration of technology into education and learning.

“We are glad to have ably answered this call. Through www.yaaka.cc, teachers and education institutions can avail class notes, books, quizzes, assignments and award performance; while teachers and students study/teach, interact in groups, forums, or as friends, and rate academic materials. We shall in the near future extend www.yaaka.cc to all African countries so that the power of internet and digital tools has real meaning when students and teachers can share learning content relevant to them,” Gerald happily says.

You can follow and participate in the live video, text, photo and social media reporting of the Yaaka unveiling below through twitter hash-tag #Yaaka1 and whatsapp to 0784300556.

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