By Ronald Musoke An application called ‘Winsenga’ that performs ultrasounds on pregnant women and detects problems such as ectopic pregnancies or abnormal fetal heart beats has earned three students from Makerere University’s College of Computing and Information Sciences a Microsoft award. The three, Aaron Tushabe, Joshua Okello and Josiah Kavuma …
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By Ronald Musoke Dr. John Mango, the Dean School of Physical Sciences in the College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS) at Makerere University, Uganda’s oldest university, has been elected to serve on the executive of the prestigious Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association (SAMSA) for a two year renewable term. Mango becomes …
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By Julius Odeke The Vice Chancellor Prof. John Ddumba-Ssentamu says Makerere University has the highest number of staff with PhDs in Uganda. He adds that every Senior Lecturer at Makerere University must have a PhD and currently, we have over 500 members of staff with PhDs adding that the number …
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By Ronald Musoke A recent study done at Makerere University’s College of Health Sciences among undergraduate students pursuing medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and nursing shows that students feel professional skills should be inculcated in them during their training and not on the job. Up to 92% of the students who participated …
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Two people including a Makerere University student committed suicide after unclear circumstances. Kampala, Uganda |Aloysious Kasoma| Emmanuel Kagina a second year student pursuing a Bachelors of Arts in arts degree at Makerere University jumped to death from one of the tallest buildings at the campus on Sunday and died instantly upon …
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Kampala, Uganda | Sarah Namulondo | Students and lecturers at Makerere College of science have joined in today’s celebrations of the international World Radiography Day. The day which is gazetted by the World Health Organisation is celebrated to commemorate the 1895 x-ray discovery by Dr W Roentgen in German. The discovery introduced …
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By Moses Khisa Government wants to retain control over Makerere but does not want to meet its financial obligations Following on Prof. Mahmood Mamdani article; “Beyond the Colonized, Neoliberal University” (The Independent August 12th 2012), I responded with “Response to Prof Mamdani (The Independent September 1st 2012). In his “Critiquing …
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By Prof Mahmood Mamdani Only a misguided doctor is reluctant to name the disease for fear of offending the patient Moses Khisa’s “Response to Prof. Mamdani: The Assumption that Makerere has not contributed to scholarship is gratuitous” (The Independent Issue 229, Aug.31) reproduces some of the logic that has led …
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By Mwambutsya Ndebesa Focus should be on harnessing right leadership attributes and resolving structural problems As we congratulate and welcome the brand new Vice Chancellor of Makerere University, Prof. John Ddumba Sentamu, we need to reflect on why almost all successive vice chancellors have had a not so successful administrative …
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By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Varsity left short of 1,200 lecturers Makerere University is daunted by vacant academic staff posts leaving its few lecturers overloaded and fatigued, a 2011 value for money audit report by Auditor General reveals. The university is supposed to have 2,491 academic staff in its eight colleges …
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