The College of Business and Management Sciences has today January 31, 2024, the 3rd day of the 74th graduation ceremony, graduated 1,704 students. At the same function, five of the college’s senior researchers received the Vice Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award 2023. The researchers, Dr. Allen Kabagenyi, Dr. Peter Kisaakye, Assoc. Prof. Betty Kwagala, Dr. Francis […]
Makerere University through the college of Business and Management Sciences has equipped over 400 refugees with entrepreneurial skills and awarded them certificates. The six-month training has seen refugees from over 10 African countries benefit from a project spearheaded by Dr. Anthony Tibaingana. Dr. Tibaingana said that he conceived the idea in 2019 following research about […]
Instead of taking jobs away from people, artificial intelligence is meant to broaden people’s perspectives and stimulate the production of new content. By automating repetitive and mundane tasks, artificial intelligence allows individuals to focus on more creative and complex aspects of their work. This shift can lead to increased innovation and the exploration of new […]
Environmental Economists from Makerere University and stakeholders in environment and natural resources sectors have expressed the need for Uganda to establish a Green Fund to finance green initiatives. The dons have also proposed and re-echoed known initiatives that require mind-set change and government commitment to infrastructural developments that can reduce environmental pollution. Environmentalists also want […]
Following a study on “Promoting Domestic Tourism in Uganda, An Assessment of Economic Significance and Opportunities for Tourism Stakeholders in Uganda” researchers have advised the government to increase funding to the tourism sector in an effort to promote and grow domestic tourism. One of the biggest hindrances to domestic tourism, as noted in the study, […]
Makerere University Innovations Hub has commemorated the international day for persons living with disabilities by celebrating these young innovators. The celebrations were held at Makerere University in the Yusuf Lule Teaching Facility-Auditorium on December 01. The persons living with disabilities showcased different skills in shoe making, soap making, bracelets making, weaving among others, parading their […]
Makerere University has hosted this year’s Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) workshop that brings together scholars across the world. The workshop started on November 27and is expected to run up to November 30 at Makerere University Yusuf Lule Central Teaching Facility II (CTF). The Center has brought together economic scholars from Africa, […]
Makerere University in partnership with Promote Uganda Company Limited (PROUL) is set to establish an agro-processing skilling hub next year to expose students to agricultural machinery. The hub that will be based at Makerere University main campus in Kampala will house agricultural machines that add value to agricultural products. While unveiling the initiative on Thursday, […]
The Inclusive Green Economy program of the Environment for Development Initiative in Uganda on 17th November hosted stakeholders across the country’s sectors to get their perspectives on biomass transition to clean energy sources in Uganda. Uganda’s IGE engagement specialists Dr. Peter Babyenda says this is one of the work plan item on on social inclusion where stakeholders […]
Government has been advised to create a fund to support Small and Medium Enterprises to implement symbiotic practices, which they say will foster sustainable development. Dr. Saadat Kimuli Nakyejwe, the principal investigator, and Dr. Kasimu Sendawula from Makerere University Business School and the College of Business and Management Sciences at Makerere University, respectively, argued that if […]