Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu University is overwhelmed by shortage of key academic staff leaving several positions vacant. The University is supposed to have 1,343 staff including both teaching and non-teaching personnel. However, only 441 positions, 33 percent have been filled up. According to the 2018 Auditor General’s report, the …
Read More »MUASA hails President Museveni over fresh salary enhancement directive
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lecturers under the Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA) have commended efforts by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to have their salaries fully enhanced. In a presidential directive dated September 30, Museveni ordered the public service minister to conclude payments for government scientists and university …
Read More »Hundreds of Sudan professors hold sit-in against Bashir gov’t
Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | About 300 Sudanese professors and lecturers from the University of Khartoum held a sit-in protest on campus Wednesday against President Omar al-Bashir’s government, a spokesman for the group said. Deadly protests have rocked the east African country since December 19 after a government decision to …
Read More »ARTS: Lecturers step out of the comfort zone after 22 years
Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | The board game (Omweso) is a gendered installation that highlights the patriarchal nature of the African traditional society. As such, it is a game that is only reserved for the male specie and women are forbidden from playing it because they have to perform household …
Read More »THIS WEEK: VC Nawangwe convinces lecturers to drop strike plans
THIS WEEK: VC Nawangwe convinces lecturers to drop strike plans Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Makerere University Vice Chancellor (VC) Barnabas Nawangwe took to his twitter account to thank lecturers for not engaging in the strike as they had promised. When they issued a warning about the looming industrial …
Read More »VIDEO: Makerere Lecturers Grumble Over Pay
VIDEO: Makerere Lecturers Grumble Over Pay Kampala, Uganda |NBS | Makerere university academic staff have given the university senate and council two weeks to resolve salary disparities that do not commensurate with the National council for Higher Education guidelines. Through their association; Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA), the lecturers claim …
Read More »MAK Convocation speaks out on sex-for-marks at Makerere University
NBS: The Makerere University Convocation has broken its silence on the alleged sexual harassment of female students by the academic staff saying it is an aspect of negligence of the university policies. These have given the university one week to pronounce it’s self on the different sex related cases that …
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