Word on the street is that Makerere university‘s woes have supernatural origins. Apparently in 1920 one Buganda chief whose land was grabbed so room could be made for Makerere University cursed the day Makerere University was born and lamented that Makerere will never be peaceful. And so it began, on the very day Makerere opened […]
Tag: e-learning
It’s less than a fortnight since the Governing Council of Makerere University declared the University closed until further notice, as a result of industrial action by the lecturers. Industrial action and demonstrations are a perennial fixture at Uganda’s oldest university and mostly result into prolonged semesters and shortened vacations. With the latest break students can […]
A consignment of 5,000 laptops were yesterday flown into Kenya from China for distribution to 370 public primary schools across the country. The arrival of the gadgets came after the Ministry of ICT completed the pilot phase of the Digital Literacy Programme for Class One pupils in public schools, which involved testing laptops and tablets […]
Education: By 2040, many of the children born this year will be joining the workforce (assuming we still have the seven years Primary, six years secondary and three years tertiary system). The world they find will be very different from ours today. How we work and live will be shaped by e-learning, smart gadgets and […]
Having studied in Uganda, one has fresh memories of congested classroom particularly at Universities with courses having enrollments of up to 1000 students. Presently there’s a rise in technology adoption across the continent, and the field of education has also picked up on the wave. Over the next three years the mobile learning market in […]