It is often heard that neccessity is the mother of innovation.Innovation distinguishes leaders from followers. In the just concluded Intellectual Property Awards organized by Uganda Registration Services Bureau, the audience was charmed by what one can refer to as a master class performance from two Read More

The grand architects of our education system envisioned a system that will equip students with knowledge and skills that creates a desire in them to respond with solutions to the pressing needs of society.Our quest for such kind of students led us to a team of young men just fresh from University who have developed a tool called Agricsuccess that is poised... Read More

Want a fun statistic to share at the watercooler? In Rwanda, a very safe country by regional standards, you are 365 times more likely to be killed in a traffic related death than in the United Kingdom. Don’t do any research on the Central African Republic, you will wonder why authorities let cars in the country at all.

This plague of traffic fatalities, the second greatest... Read More

The Academic Registrar Makerere University announces that the Pre-Entry Examination for admission to the Bachelor of Laws for 2017/2018 will be held on Saturday 22nd April,  2017.

To be eligible to sit the examination,... Read More

A team of Ugandan engineers has invented a "smart jacket" that diagnoses pneumonia faster than a doctor, offering hope against a disease which kills more children worldwide than any other.
The idea came to Olivia Koburongo, 26, after her grandmother fell ill, and was moved from hospital to hospital before being properly diagnosed with pneumonia.
"It was now too... Read More

Despite the hardships of Uganda being among the least developed countries, many innovators in Uganda are taking great strides on the world scene and Phillip Mukoza Mpaata, a pharmacist is proud to be one of them.

His drug dosing device for liquid medicines was early this year patented in the UK. The patent for Syringe Operated System (SYROPS) was granted by the UK... Read More

Kyomuhangi was the only female student out of 20 who graduated as Uganda People’s Defense Airforce pilots from Gulu Air Base on July 1, this year after intensive four-year training in flying L39 Albatross Fighter jets.

Wearing a green khaki flight jumpsuit, the soft-spoken pilot Kyomuhangi, shares her story with poise. Growing up as the last born in family of nine, Kyomuhangi... Read More

Youthful innovators from Makerere University’s College of Health Sciences School of Public Health-ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) have scooped top two cash prizes in Boston, USA.

This was at the interactive Innovation Marketplace at the USAID’s Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) technical convening TechCon 2016 in... Read More

With statistics of youth unemployment seemingly escalating by the day in Uganda,  23 year old Noah Walakira  decided not to be another addition to this ugly statistic. What started out as a simple childhood mimic has since grown into an award winning venture, the Namirembe Sweater Makers. From individual clients, the company is currently partnering with 45... Read More

The incredible story of Phiona Mutesi, the now 20-year-old Ugandan chess phenom, began in a slum in Katwe, when 9-year-old Phiona and her family were living on the street. “Having been hungry for almost three days, my brother came and told us about the chess program they always had because he wanted us to go and get something to eat,” said Mutesi. There, at the SOM Chess Academy,... Read More

It is always heartening to see more people thinking outside the proverbial box. While looking around Makerere University, CHRISTOPHER TUSIIME has met a group of people who are confident of changing the status quo, by looking in a different direction from everyone else.  

Mudasirr Govule (24) and Santos Mutebi (25), final-year students on the Journalism and... Read More

The Higher Education Students' Financing Board (HESFB) announces an Extension of Loan Application Deadline that was meant to close on Friday 22, 2016, Has been extended as follows

1. To FRIDAY AUGUST 05, 2016 For all Applicants intending to  apply for undergraduate funding
2. To MONDAY... Read More