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, […]
On 16th November 2023, national and international stakeholders participated in the kick off workshop hosted at Makerere University to further consolidate various schools of thought aimed at producing a holistic and relevant graduate student equipped with practical skills, research and problem solving abilities aligned to Sustainable Development Goals. The blended kick off workshop, which brought […]
Alexander Kagaha (cohort 7 graduate, Makerere University) facilitated a workshop on ‘Reading, Thinking and Writing’ for PhD students during the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED) Week and PhD Day at Makerere University, Kampala on October 4, 2023. Source: CARTA Newsletter Issue 70
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has partnered with Makerere University to nurture future voluntary compliant tax payers in a four-day training targeting 600 final year students from the College of Business and Management Sciences (CoBAMS). Dr. Ismail Kintu, a lecturer from the Department of Accounting and Finance said the tax training is premised to the […]
Makerere University, College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS) is the main ICT training, research and consultancy Centre in Makerere University and the region. The College runs a Center for Innovations and Professional Skills Development (CiPSD), through which the College addresses various industrial challenges, like skills development, incubation of new ideas and nurturing of new […]
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 […]
When you visit Makerere University, it is hard to miss the various landmarks bearinghistorical names, names of great people and Pan-Africanists. The students’ Halls of residence that derive their names from Pan Africanists of our time include Nkrumah and Lumumba Halls. The most outstanding of these is probably Nkrumah Hall, named after the West African […]
On Thursday 21st September 2023, Ms. Pamela Chen visited Makerere University to create awareness and broader understanding of scholarship opportunities at the University of Cambridge. Ms. Chen is the Manager responsible for international recruitment in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America at the University of Cambridge. In a strategic meeting involving staff from the Makerere University International Office, Public Relations Office […]
1.0 Background Arising from an existing Memorandum of Understanding (September 2021) between University of Padova, Italy (UniPd) and Makerere University (Mak), the two institutions partnered and were jointly granted funding for the Erasmus+ KA171 international credit mobility for students and staff, 2022-2025. At Mak, the Departmental Flow Coordinator is Felix Wamono (PhD) and the project […]
Officials from the College of IT Engineering, School of Electronics Engineering Kyungpook National University in South Korea were in Uganda for a week to renew and further academic collaboration with Makerere University College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS). The visiting team comprised Prof. Dong Seog HAN (Dean College of IT Engineering and Professor School […]