By Rogers Sunday FORT PORTAL – Mountains of the Moon University in Fort Portal has entered into an academic cooperation project with the Germany-based Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences. The cooperation project between the two universities will go a long way in reshaping the students from classwork teaching to competence-based practical work for better employability as […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on December 14, 2022) By Francis Emukule One of the sectors that underwent a drastic shift in the way things were done after the world experienced lockdowns following the COVID-19 pandemic was education. Many activities shifted online when several lockdowns and curfews were instituted around the […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on November 30, 2022) By Umar Nsubuga and Samuel Lutwama At Kololo Senior Secondary School, officials from the education ministry and teachers watched in awe as the students exhibited products made from local materials. With confidence and precision, the students demonstrated technologies for making kerosene from […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on August 3, 2022) By Ibrahim Ruhweza In 2019, 14-year-old Jessica (not real name), dropped out of Kitebi Secondary School in Kampala on realisisng that she was pregnant. When that happened, little did the school know that it would lose many other girls to pregnancy soon […]
(This article was first published in the New Vision on July 27, 2022) By Ivan Tsebeni Students in various schools around the country have developed several products since education institutions reopened early this year. For instance, a group of students at Caltec Academy in Makerere, a city suburb, led by Esther Nantongo, a Senior Two […]
By Geoffrey Mutegeki Experts have called on Ugandan universities to forge partnerships with industries to drive innovation and development. World over, tertiary institutions which have good partnerships with industries have had an increased success rate of university start-ups. Many Ugandan universities have had research and start-ups that have not gone beyond laboratories, libraries and journals. […]