Matthew Bukenya, who served as secretary of the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) for nearly 20 years and remade its image, is dead. UNEB, in a statement said Bukenya died on Sunday night. It did not reveal the cause of his death. Bukenya was believed to be in his late 80s or early 90s. A…
St Peters SSS, Naalya, is slated to celebrate 25 years of existence on November 16. While launching the preparatory activities, the head teacher of the school, Gift Turyasingura said the past 25 years have been a great success. “We are committed to delivering good service not only in academics but also we give an all…
Lawrence Mukiibi was a prominent educationist in Uganda. Whatever his imperfections that were laid bare after his death in 2017, Mukiibi was the first person to set up modern schools that were compared to four-star hotels. His schools, the St Lawrence Schools, were not only about beautiful buildings. Mukiibi minded about academic standards, too. Yet…
The Minister of Kampala Minsa Kabanda, has warned schools under the UPE and USE scheme not to levy extra fees on pupils. Kabanda was meeting with government school leaders in Kampala to address the contentious issue of school fees levies. The meeting was prompted by complaints from parents about the financial burdens imposed by some…
Eight years after it opened its doors, Viva College School in Jinja is already making great academic strides. The school, this year, had two of its students admitted for the prestigious Bachelor of Laws degree on government sponsorship at Makerere University. To put this achievement into perspective, Viva College had more students admitted to the…
Busoga College Mwiri, once a powerful school that produced lawyers, doctors, engineers, journalists and some of the most prominent politicians in Uganda today did not have any student admitted on government sponsorship at Makerere University this year. According to the list, no student from Mwiri qualified for government sponsorship on any course at Makerere University…
Gombe Secondary School in Butambala district outperformed other Muslim founded schools according to this year’s admission list of government sponsorsed students at Makerere University and MUBS . Out of the 1500 students admitted to the two institutions on government sponsorship, Gombe had a total of 36 students. This is more than double the number of…
For the first time in many years, Kings College Budo and Mount St Mary’s Namagunga did not have any of their students admitted on government for the Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy at Makerere University this year. Last year, Budo and Namagunga has two students each on the prestigious course and in the last ten years…
St Mary’s Kitende SS and Seeta High School, Mukono Campus have dominated the admission list for government sponsored students at Makerere University and Makerere University Business School (MUBS) this year. The two schools, in total, had 287 students admitted on government sponsorship at the two institutions. The lists released this week also indicate that traditional…
Janet Museveni, the minister of Education and Sports, has commended King Ceasor University for its commitment in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). In her speech read by the Minister of state for Higher Education, John C. Muyingo, she congratulated the 240 graduates from 11 countries, including Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda,…
