By Bernard Buteera In its quest to become a research-led university and in line with its vision 2030; a thought leader of knowledge generation for societal transformation and development, Makerere University is headed in the right direction. From 11th to 15th June 2023, Prof. Umar Kakumba, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs, led a delegation […]
The CAES GRADCARE Management System is envisaged to enhance efficiency in the graduate production process, and to improve the completion rate in the stipulated time to 70%. The CAES GRADCARE Management System The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) has developed an online system to enhance efficiency of graduate management processes. The CAES GRADCARE […]
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 role that digital education plays and might continue to play in providing access to higher education throughout sub-Saharan Africa is both promising and perilous. No single approach to digital education will effectively scale in the manner intended and will potentially exacerbate the marginalization that these groups experience. What does scale, however, are the multiplier […]
Makerere University in collaboration with University of Bergen, Norway; Kyambogo University, Uganda; National Institute of Teacher Education (UNITE); and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences is implementing a Six (6) years NORHED II supported Project titled ‘Capacity Building for Research–Based Teacher Education (CABUTE)’. CABUTE is aimed at enabling Uganda’s successful implementation of the National Teacher […]
Prioritising the preparation and training of our people for the 21st century, India has committed 15,000 scholarships to students and professionals in Africa by providing opportunities in online education. These include, short-term courses, undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, and continued medical education. The scholarship will cover the tuition fees to attend an Indian university that will […]
Date: 15th – 17th June 2022 Please register here to get the Zoom link for the workshop: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrdOygqTksG9Mx0s8f5VbjLHCnQz… About this workshop Information Literacy forms the basis for lifelong learning and is a necessary skill for all scholars and researchers. Information Literacy is knowing when and why you need information, where to find it, and how […]
The Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology and Biotechnology, Makerere University in partnership with Leipzig Universität (Germany) and Inter-Regional University of Industrial Engineering, Biotechnology & Applied Sciences (IRGIB)-Benin is coordinating an online course Bio-Biz: Business Models for Sustainable Use of Biodiversity under the Access to Benefit Sharing (ABSbio) project. In this course participants will learn development of sustainable […]