The policy comes into force following a demonstration by intern doctors over government’s new proposal to reduce their numbers and scrap the payment of those who studied on private sponsorship.

Minister of health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng.

Appearing before the committee chaired by Bukuya constituency MP, Dr. Michael Bukenya, Minister of health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng said her ministry wants  new policy implemented so as to ensure quality standards in the medical profession.

But some MPs on the committee including; Gaffa Mbwatekamwa of Kasambya and Joy Atim Ongom of Lira district insist that because the graduands were not notified about it earlier, they did not prepare for that examination.

They instead want the examination to be given to those who will come after this year’s lot, expressing fears that much as the policy is good, to implement it this particular year is unfair to the intern doctors who are due for a full year practice in hospitals.

The minister vowed that the policy will have to be implemented this September before deployment of the intern doctors in October this year adding that they have challenges in training interns and at the end of the day they are just passed forgetting that they are fully in charge of our health.

The post Health ministry yet to agree with MPs on pre-internship exams first appeared on Uganda Multimedia News & Information.

Senior six examination results have been released in Kampala by education minister, Jesicca Alupo. According to the results, arts students have performed better than their science counterparts. But this is not good for a country with many redundant and jobless ‘artists’. What happened to the government policy of promoting sciences? Is it not working?

The Secretary of Uganda National Examination Board says that the performance in last year’s Ugandan Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) improved slightly with 99.3% of the candidates qualified for the UACE award compared to 99.2 per cent in 2011.

The best done subjects were History, Entrepreneurship, Geography, Literature, Chemistry and Biology. The candidates performed very poor in divinity, Islam, Math, Physics, economics and Agriculture.

The total number of S6 students who sat the exams was 111,456 compared to 103,760 candidates in 2011.

Ends

The post S6 exams out: see how your child performed first appeared on Uganda Multimedia News & Information.

Minister Jessica Alupo

While releasing the 2012 Senior 4 results this afternoon, Minister Jesica Alupo ordered the examination body to take stern action against offenders to deter others from engaging in such unlawful acts.

Meanwhile, the minister has also asked UNEB to plug all the loopholes in the registration of candidates to avoid cases of candidates missing exams due to unpaid fees.

The UCE results released today indicated a slight decline in performance in 2012 compared to 2011.

The senior five selection exercise is set for 14^th and 16^th February and Wonder World in Kansanga, a Kampala suburb.

The senior five students are expected to start school on March 4^th.

The post Schools to lose their center numbers over engaging in examination malpractice first appeared on Uganda Multimedia News & Information.

The examinations body admits that they delivered the wrong papers for yesterday’s religious education O’level exams.

Yesterday shock engulfed senior four students who offer Christian Religious Education and Islam after they were given an exam that was not set according to their sylabus.

UNEB Spokesperson Hamis Kaheru says they have called an urgent meeting to decide the fate of the candidates and discuss the way forward.

Kaheru adds that they have also set up a committee which is to come up with an official position soon.

The post UNEB mixes up examination papers first appeared on Uganda Multimedia News & Information.

Muslims have no right to wear veils while entering schools, hospitals, markets and public places in Uganda. The new development follows an incidence at Masaka School of Comprehensive Nursing when a lecturer sent out two female Muslim girls from class for wearing veils while at school.

The post Muslims not supposed to put on veils and enter schools first appeared on Uganda Multimedia News & Information.

The Media for Liberty Award seeks to acknowledge and encourage media contributions that explore the relationship between economic and political liberty.

The most outstanding entry, published or transmitted in the preceding calendar year (between January 1 and December 31) will receive an award of $50,000.

Economists and political theorists have long debated the relationship between economic liberty (i.e., freedom of individuals to make economic choices in a free-market environment) and political liberty (i.e., freedom from government intervention and fostering of civil liberties).

Prominent economists such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, have argued that free economies are conducive to, or even an inseparable element of, political freedom.

The promotion of economic and political liberties requires continual examination by policy makers both in the United States and across the globe. But the media can play an equally vital role in promoting these freedoms through its treatment of and attention to issues of the day, and the societies, cultures and people who are either prospering or struggling in their pursuit of them.

Journalism – from various viewpoints and in various format – that illustrates this correlation will become increasingly relevant as boundaries are lifted and these ideas applied globally.

Sample topics and issues might include (but are not limited to):

• Government involvement in private enterprise (TARP, health and financial reform)
• Dependency on foreign oil
• Access to healthcare (universal care, rationing, Medicare)
• Sovereign debt
• Basic goods (food, housing, healthcare) becoming prohibitively expensive for the middle class consumer
• Ultimate cost of globalization from a societal, cultural, economic perspective True cost of ethanol and its impact on food and fuel
• Fair trade
• Global tax and regulatory changes

Entries must have been published or transmitted via print or electronic media between January 1 and December 31.

Eligible media outlets, including newspapers, magazines, journals, radio, television and websites, must be generally recognized in their markets and accessible to a broad audience in the United States.

For more information and scholarship applications, see: Media for Liberty Award

The post Media for Liberty Award in United States first appeared on Uganda Multimedia News & Information.

Reach Undergraduate scholarships: A number of Oxford colleges offer Reach Oxford scholarships to students from developing countries who, for political or financial reasons, or because equivalent educational facilities do not exist, cannot study for a degree in their own countries.

Scholarship Application Eligibility Criteria:

• This scheme is only suitable for candidates of the highest academic ability who have outstanding examination results.
• However, financial need and social commitment are also major criteria for selection.

Level of study: Undergraduate degrees.

Subject: All undergraduate subjects except Medicine due to the length and expense of this course

Value: University and college fees, full grant for living expenses; return flight to the UK at the start and end of the course

Number: Approximately 3 awards will be made.

Deadline: You must apply by end of February.

Email: international.office[at]admin.ox.ac.uk

For further details, and application materials, contact: Reach Undergraduate Scholarships – Oxford University

The post Reach Undergraduate offers Scholarships in OxfordUniversity for Development countries first appeared on Uganda Multimedia News & Information.

Abdullah Jamal, a resident ofTanganyikavillage inDadamuSubCountyin Arua reportedly killed the children and reported himself to police claiming that he did not have food to feed the children.

The Criminal Investigations Department officer of Arua district, Alex Afemia confirmed the development and said that Jamal is now inside police cells.

The slain children have been identified as Enoch Abiliga , 5, and Osman Bayyo aged three years. The police have taken the bodies of the dead children to Arua hospital mortuary for postmortem.

 The CID officer has told journalists that Jamal is to be taken to Butabika for medical examination to ascertain his mental status. The mother of the dead children died in 2005.

The post Man working under influence of marijuana kills two children first appeared on Uganda Multimedia News & Information.