Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hostel proprietors around Kyambogo University have started calling up students to pick up their property, saying they can no longer keep it. A number of students left their property in the privately owned hostels when government announced the closure of all learning institutions in the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu University has said that they will consider admitting students who did not apply to the University for study after the deadline. The deadline for application to the University was June 10, from which, the university released an admission list of 4,000 students on July …
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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 …
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Dar es salaam, Tanzania | XINHUA | Tanzania’s Higher Education Students’ Loans Board (HESLB) announced on Tuesday that it will issue 464 billion Tanzanian shillings (about 200 million U.S. dollars) for 145,000 students in universities and high learning institutions in the 2020-2021 academic year. HESLB, in a statement, informed students …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Universities and other institutions of higher learning have asked the National Council for Higher Education to reconsider guidelines barring them from implementing e-learning teaching without all students. The idea of ensuring that the online mode of learning doesn’t exclude any continuing student was first …
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Denver, US, | XINHUA | Voices against the Trump administration’s recent visa restriction for foreign students continued loudly, as hundreds of thousands of Americans had signed petitions by Friday night, condemning the move. “This is the real American silent majority,” Washington policy analyst Dave Richardson told Xinhua. “They are educated, …
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Kitagwenda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education has started the process of taking over Kanara Secondary School in Kitagwenda district. The school was constructed in 2005 by the community. It has 400 students, 13 teachers and the only secondary school in the sub-county. However, it has been …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University has deferred the admission of first-year students to the Bachelors of Dental Surgery Program for the Academic Year 2020/2021. This follows the failure to meet requirements set by the joint East African Medical and Dental Council. A document from the office …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The Public University Joint Admission Board-PUJAB concluded the selections of students who are joining universities during the 2020/2021 Academic Year, through the National Merit Government Sponsorship admissions. At least 103,000 Senior Six leavers applied for undergraduate government sponsorship in different public universities …
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Frankfurt am Main, Germany | AFP | A team of medical students pressed into service by Cologne’s public health office are scrambling to cut off potential new chains of coronavirus infections by endlessly repeating the same questions. “What are your symptoms? Who have you met in the last few days?” they …
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