The HERS-EA Sixth Academy officially kicked off on 3rd July 2023 at the Grand Global Hotel, Makerere Kikoni, based on the Maya Angelou-inspired theme ‘And Still I Rise’. This year’s theme is aimed at challenging participants to rise above and beyond institutional and personal barriers to women leadership. Launched in 2014, the Higher Education Resource […]
When COVID-19 emerged in 2019, it first remained temporarily localized as an epidemic in Huan China until it broke Chinese national and Asian continental borders attaining a global pandemic status. With COVID-19 and other epidemics and/or pandemics of humans and livestock, it is easier to explain the obvious impact on humans and/or livestock. What about […]
CONFERENCE THEME: CELEBRATING 20 YEARS WITH ISP/EAUMP/SIDA, 10 YEARS WITH CIMO/HEI-ICI AND COMMENCING OF THE NORHED II FUNDED MATHEMATICS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT CONFERENCE DATES: 01st -04th August 2023 VENUE: MAKERERE UNIVERSITY, YUSUF LULE CENTRAL TEACHING FACILITY (CTF2) DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: 30TH JUNE 2023 INTRODUCTION The Eastern Africa Universities Mathematics Programme (EAUMP) courtesy […]
In partnership with Amity University (AUUP), Makerere University (College of Computing and Information Sciences-CoCIS) has been offering e-Learning courses (Bachelor’s degrees, Master’s and Post-graduate certificates) for the last over 10 years under the Pan African e-network project on behalf of the Uganda government, Indian government and African union. Now under a new Partnership M.O.U since […]
The College of Education and External Studies (CEES) has launched Kiswahili as one of the languages to be taught while instructing learners undertaking vocational skilling courses in government hubs distributed across the parts of Uganda. This, the university says, will boost the market for the products they output. “Our target is to create market links […]
The Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC), School of Law (SoL), Makerere University launched its report analysing transparency and accountability concerns over the management and oversight of Covid19 funds in Uganda; the report is a result of a one-year research initiative by the centre. Rt. Hon. Thomas Tayebwa, Deputy Speaker of Parliament of Uganda was […]
Higher Education Resource Services, East Africa (HERS-EA) ACADEMY provides anintensive leadership and management development curriculum which equips women withskills needed to advance their personal career development and successfully navigate theinstitutional environment where they operate. The goal of the HERS-EA training is toraise the proportion of women in leadership and management positions in HigherEducation Institutions (HEIs) […]
The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) will host the NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (NCD) SYMPOSIUM 2023. Date: 4th March 2023 Time: 9:00am to 6:00pm Objective: Provide a forum for dissemination of advances in different NCDs with regard to training and research and their impact on community in Uganda and East Africa. Theme: Advances in NCD […]
Researchers from Makerere University College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS) have designed the Smart bee Monitor ready to conduct its first trials in the field in December 2022. This is the first time the device will be taken out of the laboratory to test how it performs in monitoring bee hives. The first deployment […]
The programme titled, “Enhancing the Capacity of Young Scientists to Engage in Agricultural and Food Security Policy Processes in East Africa” seeks to improve connection between science, policy and practice Funder: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Overview Agriculture is a key economic sector in the East African Region and it is an important source of […]