This article was first published on the New Vision website on May 4, 2023 By Apollo Mubiru The executive director of the Higher Education Student Financing Board (HESFB), Michael Wanyama, has reported inconsistencies in applicants for government student loans across the country. Wanyama had led a team before the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and […]
This article was first published in New Vision in November 2022 Pascal Kwesiga It’s easy to give up after one or two rejections, but not for twenty-three-year-old Judith Amutuhire. When she completed A’level in 2019, she applied for a government scholarship to do a bachelor of science in electrical engineering at Makerere University. But Amutuhire, […]
Kellen Owente Fatumah Kiweweesi, 26, dropped out of university in her first year of study in 2018 because her mother failed to raise enough money to continue funding her education. Kiweweesi, who was pursuing a bachelor’s in leisure and hospitality at Makerere University Business School, has over the past five years been working as a […]