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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have asked the Ministry of Education and Sports to move funds for all government scholarships to the Student Loan Scheme under the Higher Education Financing Board for equal access by all students. Legislators said the current format in which scholarships are awarded favours …

  Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom (BKK) has rolled out a Scholarship fund which will benefit students from Bunyoro sub region. “The fund which was approved by both the Kingdom Cabinet and Parliament (Rukurato) is hinged on the vision of enabling young people of Bunyoro access and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  74 Ugandan students in Algeria are stuck with no money to meet their basic needs after the government failed to pay their stipend for the last seven months.  The Algerian government offers at least 100 scholarships to Ugandan nationals, through an annual scholarship programme administered …

 Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Education and Sports has advised parents with first-year students undertaking different educational programmes on bilateral scholarships in Algeria to ensure that they keep on facilitating their children as government has still failed to send them funds.    Records indicate that the Algerian …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been tasked to explain Uganda’s failure to take up 248 scholarships offered by four foreign countries. The scholarships were offered by Italy, Germany, Belgium and Algeria. The Public Accounts Commitee of Parliament raised the queries in a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Russian Embassy in Kampala has approved a list of candidates from Uganda and South Sudan proposed for the Russian State Scholarship. The 16 Ugandans and five South Sudanese win scholarships to study at the Russian universities within the quota for international students provided …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Virtual University of Uganda (VUU), Sub-Saharan Africa’s first private online only university and a vanguard in the technological revolution in university education, has kicked off a campaign to raise US$1 million in scholarships and bursaries for masters and postgraduate degrees in Africa. The Fund dubbed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Jan.04, the Ministry of Health signed scholarship agreements with over 500 students from 28 training institutions from across the country. The scholarships are intended to improve skills in the provision of Reproduc-tive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health Services. The courses include but are …

THIS WEEK: Madhavani offers Shs700m scholarship to 160 students For the fifteenth year running, the Muljibhai Madhvani Foundation through its scholarships sub-committee has awarded a total number of 161 University scholarships worth Shs700million to exceptionally talented yet financially challenged students for the year 2017/2018. The foundation has supported over 2000 …

By Ronald Musoke Total E&P Uganda, one of the three major oil companies heavily involved in oil prospecting and production in the country has offered up to 20 scholarships to students from the oil districts of Nwoya, Buliisa, Nebbi and Masindi where the French company currently has operations (Exploration Areas …