Not long ago, Uganda’s higher education offer was too standardized – in fact, it was akin to the then CocaCola beverage. You could attain a standardised and quality-assured degree, be it the Bachelors, Masters or Ph.D. from the very few… Read More ›
Education in Uganda
Opportunity-myopia – getting your 5-years-old genius back
From where we stand – we see youth and post-youth unemployment as a ticking time bomb. Unemployment is attributed to many factors – bad politics and governance, corruption, bad-economics, lack of skills, rigid agrarian economic regimes, etc. However, this blog… Read More ›
Why a degree no longer guarantees individual prosperity 1 of 2
Are we witnessing, albeit gradually, the demise of the academic degree? Perhaps demise is too big a word to use for the human ‘license’ to individual prosperity (read: degree). But there is undoubtedly a change-of-guard conversation here. The degree is… Read More ›
Is Uganda’s education system – a poverty factory? Series 2 of 2
Do you know that in Uganda, over 64% of the youth are unemployed and that 75% of the population is below the age of 30? The official definition for youth in Uganda: 18-30 years – and this makes the unemployment… Read More ›
Is Uganda’s education system – a poverty factory? Series 1 of 2
If it weren’t for the want of human socialisation and relationship building, parents in Uganda could educate their children at home using Google – Siri and Alexa digital assistants. What is the purpose of going to school daily in a… Read More ›
Uganda’s new graduates – the Coca-Cola degree
Last Saturday, I was amongst the speakers at a graduation ceremony in Uganda – at a village called Nakabugu, in Luuka district. I have known the graduate Sekezi, right from her early years. It was quite an awakening for me… Read More ›
Agility and not Efficiency brings excellence to your work
About six years ago, I identified a young man called Jeff, who was in his penultimate year of an undergraduate IT degree at Makerere University in Uganda. Jeff took time off from the university to do various IT jobs for… Read More ›
