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Strategic partnership focuses on strengthening the university’s mandate, delivery, and innovation agenda Kampala, Uganda – July 4, 2025 – Makerere University and DFCU Bank Limited today signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) designed to support the university’s core mandate as Uganda’s premier higher education institution. The partnership will enhance academic excellence, advance research and […]

By Julius Tukacungura The 14th Pan-African Society for Music Arts Education (PASMAE) in partnership with the International Society for Music Education (ISME) Regional Conference brings on board educators, researchers, performers, students, cultural practitioners, and policymakers from across the globe to revolutionalize African musical arts education. The four-days conference (1st to 4th July 2025), themed, Re-imagining Musical […]

The Iteso Cultural Leader, His Highness Emorimor Papa Paul Sande Emolot, has called on Makerere University to elevate the Science of Designing, Adaptation, and Implementation of Evidence-Based Parenting Interventions course into a fully-fledged programme. This, he argued, would strengthen the capacity of practitioners implementing parenting interventions across Uganda. Speaking at a graduation ceremony held on […]

Minister calls on universities  to Mainstream Cultural Studies Kampala, Uganda | May 16, 2025 — Makerere University, in collaboration with the University of Turin and the Italian Embassy in Kampala, marked four decades of academic and cultural partnership with a landmark photographic exhibition titled “Connecting Cultures: The Italian Ethnological Mission in the Great Lakes Region.” […]

Makerere University staff have been urged to embrace collaboration, accountability, and capacity building as key strategies for winning grants under the Makerere University Research and Innovation Fund (RIF). Speaking on the second day of the CHUSS CERTL International Conference at Fairway Hotel  on 15th November 2024, Prof. Fred Masagazi-Masaazi, Chair of the Mak RIF Grants […]

Makerere University through the Department of African Languages, School of Languages, Literature and Communication on 21st February 2024 joined the rest of the world to celebrate the International Mother Language Day. This day is observed every year to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The celebrations  started with the official opening of the Sir […]