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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Professor Barnabas Nawangwe has finally lifted a ban on the long awaited students’ guild elections. The decision is contained in his March 6, letter to the Dean of Students Cyriaco Kabagambe. According to Nawangwe, the decision follows the publication …

Rome, Italy | AFP |  Two US students are expected to appear in an Italian court on Wednesday on the first day of their trial over the fatal stabbing last year of a policeman during a botched drugs bust. Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth have been charged with killing newlywed …

Arua, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Political Leaders and Educationists in the West Nile are calling for deliberate efforts by the government to ensure regional equity in the enrollment of students to the higher education loan scheme.    The scheme is managed by the Higher Education Students Financing Board-HESFB, a government …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Government has said that Ugandan students living in Wuhan city, China are safe from the coronavirus.  This was carried in a statement by the Minister of Health Dr Jane Aceng to parliament concerning the plight of Ugandan students in Wuhan China where the Corona Virus …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  New districts carved out of the top-performing districts have trailed in the just-released Uganda Certificate of Education-UCE results. A deeper look at the figures released by Uganda National Examinations Board-UNEB on today shows that districts created 2010, and those that started operations from 2016, are …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  More than 52,000 students who sat for Primary Leaving Examinations in 2019 have not been planned for during the ongoing Senior One selection exercise at the Uganda Manufacturer’s Association conference hall. According to the Uganda National Examinations Board, 683,303 candidates sat for P.L.E in 2019. …

Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  At least 146 students of St Elizabeth Institute of Health Professionals in Mukono Municipality who failed to graduate last year because of the failure by the institute to organise a graduation ceremony have finally graduated. The institute merged the graduation of last year’s students together …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Jinja Police are investigating circumstances under, which a security guard attached to Star React Security Guard Limited shot dead a third year student of Kampala university, Jinja branch. The deceased has been identified as Isaac Katagwa who has been pursuing a bachelor’s degree in hotel …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Police in Kitgum district are holding 110 teenagers arrested while attending night events on Friday night.  The suspects mostly students who returned home for the third term holidays were arrested from hotels and night clubs that hosted “corporate” night dances within the municipality. Robert …

Mpigi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Papal nuncio to Uganda, Archbishop Luigi Bianco has challenged catholic founded institutions to rethink their way of teaching and front an ‘integral education in a fragmented world, full of contradictions.’   The Papal nuncio says that challenges stirred by development and the evolution of technology …