Education
COVID-19 infection rates soar in US college towns …
Just two weeks after students started returning to Ball State University last month, the surrounding county has become Indiana's coronavirus epicentre. Out of nearly 600 students tested for the virus...
Makerere University funds 120 research projects on…
More than 120 research and innovation projects in the field of Covid-19 have been funded by Makerere University Research and Innovation Fund (Mak-RIF). This was disclosed by Dr Robert Wamala, a membe...
Alain Goetz urges businesses to support schools
With schools and churches still under lockdown, Alain Goetz, the founder and former chief executive officer of African Gold, has called on the business community to support some of these institutions...
Parents, students skeptical about schools reopening
A section of Ugandan parents thinks it is still unsafe and costly to send their children back to school given the risks of the COVID-19 as government moots plans to reopen schools. After giving a green light last week to health students to return to school, President Yoweri Museveni has reportedly…