The ministry of education and sports has informed the Chief Administrative Officers, district chairpersons, district education officers, municipal education officers, districts security officers, and heads of schools that there will be a national head count exercise for S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 and S6 students on Universal Secondary Education (USE) schools in Uganda. The […]
Doctoral Scholarships for Developing Countries: As one of its contributions to development co-operation, K.U.Leuven offers each academic year scholarships to deserving students from developing countries to do their PhD in the largest university in Flanders, Belgium. Also commonly referred to as the IRO scholarships (IRO in Dutch stands for Interfacultaire Raad voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking), this scholarship […]
Doctoral Scholarships in Law, Science and Technology: There are excellent fellowship opportunities for students accepted to the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate programme in “Law, Science and Technology.” Fellowships can be awarded to doctoral candidates, selected by EM LAST-JD consortium, who come from a country other than: a Member State of the European Union an EEA-EFTA […]
HIV & Drug Use Fellowships: The International AIDS Society (IAS)has established a research fellowship programme focusing on HIVand drug use, with the goal of contributing to advances in the scientific understanding of drug use and HIV, while fosteringinternational collaborative research on HIV and drug use. The fellowship programme is awarded as a stipend of US$75,000 […]
Members of Parliament want government to enter into treaties with other countries to repatriate Ugandans prisoners currently held in foreign prisons. Mukono Municipality MP, Betty Nambooze Bakireke notes that countries such as Malaysia and China are holding in custody several Ugandans on charges of drug trafficking, murder and other crimes. Nambooze says efforts by some […]
A major reshuffle is taking place at Dembe FM. The reshuffle has come with both agony and excitement. We are told that the excitement the reshuffle has brought is that of comedian Zzizinga Dickson joining the station. The comedian has replaced ms Rachael Namwanje, the deep voiced lady who has been presenting ‘Gyigenda Gitya’ radio […]
The Government of Uganda is preparing to introduce a teachers’ scheme in the financial year 2012/13 in order to enable teachers get higher qualifications and consequently receive promotions. This was reveled to the media today in Kampala by education and sports minister, Jessica Alupo who said that the move is one of the government’s interventions […]
The coalition for health promotion and social development, a national health rights organization and the action aid are to recruit professionals who can work under minimum supervision to fill the following posts: programme manager- community empowerment programme, programme assistant- community empowerment programme, programme officer administrative and human resource, programme officer research and monitoring, programme officer […]