/News/Education/-/688336/688336/-/yy2wiu/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/Should+public+universities+be+subjected+to+charter+processes/-/688336/1409802/-/vdh369z/-/index.html The National Council for Higher Education in Uganda takes a wholistic assessment of the state of higher education in the country. Since the last report released in 2006, NCHE notes significant growth in institutions but stagnant or declining unit cost funding for facilities, infrastructure and staff. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1409814/-/g2wvbj/-/index.html Makerere University and Petroleum firm Total E&P Uganda last week signed a lifelong Memorandum of Understanding in a bid to improve the quality of engineering related students the 89- year old institution passes out. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/Corporate+companies+embrace+education+philanthropy/-/688336/1404848/-/niljaoz/-/index.html When the government finally comes around to start an official fund for students who would wish to complete their education with a little help, the field of such magnanimity will not be completely bare. Often seen as a venture whose trade-off might not easily be realized, there are organisations that are already leagues ahead in as far as sponsorship of children goes in the country. 2012-05-13T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/Madhavani+s+50+year+scholarships+hit+Shs600+million/-/688336/1404860/-/s131kk/-/index.html Counting among the ranks of promising young people it has helped realise their dreams prominent names like retired Supreme Court Judge Professor George Kanyeihamba, senior environment specialist Edward Nantamu, senior quantity surveyor Philly Mpata among many others, the Madhvani Foundation, founded at the same time Uganda gained independence will mark this year on a new high, hitting Shs600million in scholarship offers. 2012-05-13T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/St++Joseph+s+vocational++balancing+theory+and+skills/-/688336/1404856/-/2wvode/-/index.html 44/50: St. Joseph’s vocational, Mbarara. The school may not carry the same claim to historical right among those that closely share Uganda’s Independence experience having been founded nearly twenty years after independence but its unique positioning of balancing skill with theory has enabaled it eke its own place among Uganda’s greatest. 2012-05-13T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/E+voting+gains+ground+as+choice+University+method/-/688336/1404870/-/shuryh/-/index.html While the country gropes for answers on how to answer the ever increasing pressure to have cleaner, secure, efficient and easy to use methods while conducting elections, a new system of electronic voting is slowly but surely gaining ground among a few of the country’s higher institutions of learning. 2012-05-13T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/Students++loan+scheme+Bill+for+Oct/-/688336/1402318/-/995ybx/-/index.html Government is to enact an enabling law for the implementation of the university students’ loan scheme which had been hindered by the lack of a legal framework. 2012-05-09T04:54:44Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/MPs+block+plan++to+raise+teachers+pay+by+Shs40+000/-/688336/1402316/-/a9e6og/-/index.html Lawmakers on the Social Services committee yesterday kicked out officials of the Ministry of Education after they presented budget estimates which propose that the least paid teacher gets a maximum pay rise of Shs40,950 in the coming financial year. 2012-05-09T04:54:44Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/Govt+orders+UNEB+TO+register+students+for+exams/-/688336/1400626/-/ex4f90/-/index.html Government has extended the deadline for payment SESEMAT fees to enable defaulting schools pay up. The deadline for registration had earlier been set for April 15 but has been pushed to July, according to a statement issued by the Education Ministry on Friday. 2012-05-06T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/Tororo+s+Mathematics+star+selected+for+global+contest/-/688336/1400620/-/10dywas/-/index.html A Tororo student who excelled in the National Mathematics Contest and was also among the leading performers in the district in the 2011 Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education Examinations (UACE) is destined for the International Mathematics Contest in Argentina in July, 2012. 2012-05-06T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1396218/-/fobryh/-/index.html Lack of a giving culture in Uganda and Africa in general is impetuously prevalent due to the poverty mentality, Uganda Christian University (UCU) Vice Chancellor Dr John Senyonyi said on Saturday. 2012-04-29T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1396208/-/fobrxl/-/index.html “When you educate a girl, you educate a nation’ is a notion that has always been invoked mostly by feminists to rally support for girl child education locally and internationally. 2012-04-29T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1396204/-/fobrxh/-/index.html Makerere University staff have reconsidered their position to strike over top-up allowances after the government agreed to honour its pledge this week. 2012-04-29T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1396226/-/fobs0b/-/index.html Nkumba University is one of a few where multi party politics has been allowed to operate almost openly and the ruling NRM has maintained dominance. 2012-04-29T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1396220/-/fobs05/-/index.html Jinja Secondary School. Jinja SS was founded in Uganda’s then industrial capital, Jinja to provide education for children of the growing Indian Community in 1948 but later locals were allowed to join sparking bitter confrontations that were to become a test to Independent Uganda’s commitment to multiracialism. 2012-04-29T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1396206/-/fobrxj/-/index.html Government has unveiled six manuals to help primary teachers improve the quality of teaching and learning in public schools. 2012-04-29T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1391714/-/fo8fas/-/index.html The National Council for Higher Education in Uganda takes a wholistic assessment of the state of higher education in the country. Since the last report released in 2006, NCHE notes significant growth in institutions but stagnant or declining unit cost funding for facilities, infrastructure and staff. 2012-04-22T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1391728/-/fo8fbs/-/index.html About 20 kilometres from Lugazi town, amid lush green roadsides on the Kampala—Jinja high, a nondescript paved road snakes off up a hill. A fast driver or an inattentive passenger will hardly notice as one moves from the green of a dense tropical forest or from an expanse of carpet like green sugarcane fields. Once inside the compound, the same serenity is replicated, there are hardly any students loitering around. 2012-04-22T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1391722/-/fo8fbm/-/index.html When it celebrated 110 years of existence, Namilyago was not just celebrating history, in fact it was celebrating success as both an academic and sporting giant. To spice the success, the school was also the best performing in last years O’ Level examination results released earlier this year . 2012-04-22T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1391736/-/fo8fcm/-/index.html The shift away from paper qualifications considerations to competence basis by the newly established technical examination board has seen improvement in performance of technical institutions students. 2012-04-22T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1386990/-/fnper8/-/index.html There was a time when the school was regarded with mixed feelings by the public. The focus on co-curricular activities and the importance of confidence in the world out of school was not fully appreciated by some but the fruits of such policies have been seen in today’s society. Old students are represented in all spheres of professional life and leadership. 2012-04-15T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1386994/-/fnperc/-/index.html Established in 1967, 45-year old Uganda Martyrs Namugongo, has in the recent past established itself as one of those hitherto little known schools to challenge for the academic excellence space enjoyed by the traditional schools. 2012-04-15T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1386998/-/fnperg/-/index.html On March 27 government changed its representatives on the Islamic University in Uganda council, bringing Prof. Mukwanason Hyuha , the deputy vice chancellor in charge of academics at Kampala International University (KIU) as vice chairman and Mr Mahiri Balunywa , a don at the same institution and Ms Nusura Tiperu , a legislator in the East Africa Legislative Assembly as members. 2012-04-15T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1386984/-/fnpeqg/-/index.html Even though several thousands have been able to go to school, as a result of UPE and USE, a big percentage of the current products do not seem relevant to the current job market leaders. 2012-04-15T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Education/-/688336/1377858/-/fn4jbb/-/index.html Are you retiring voluntarily or have you been pushed? I was ready indeed, I am not worried, I am not complaining because people come and go but institutions remain. Being a director is not a life-time appointment and I have played my part and think It is time I give a chance to others to steer the institution. 2012-04-01T21:00:00Z