• Holds 87% of PhD holding lecturers in Uganda

Makerere University is miles ahead of other tertiary institutions in the country, judging by the quality of its teaching staff.

Five years of research into an energy efficient car are about to come to fruition with the unveiling of the Kiira EV, a car designed by seven final-year students in the faculty of Technology at Makerere University.

With the maternal and child health issues attracting international attention, a team of five students from Makerere University Faculty of Computing and Informatics Technology are engaging modern information technology to save mothers and their children.

While the phrase, “spare the rod and spoil the child” is often incorrectly attributed to the Bible (it was first written in a poem by British poet Samuel Butler, in 1664), the scriptures in the Old Testament do support spanking children.    

A huge plaster hangs over his head as he painfully rises to urinate. Hanging on both hands, he creates space for his mother to place a bottle, which now serves as his urinal.