The Secretary General of the East African Community Dr. Richard Sezibera has called on students in the region to take advantage of the opportunities created through the East Africa Community (EAC) integration to improve their communities and their lives. Sezibera said this while addressing students at the East African Community Students Union Conference in Arusha, [...]
Rwanda is considering partnering with policy innovators from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a way of building on the country’s development success. Researchers and academics from The Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), based at MIT joined Rwandan policy makers at a Decision Science Symposium this Tuesday, May 21, 2013. They discussed best practice policy [...]
The East African Quality Assurance Forum which works under the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) is meeting in Kigali to discuss issues of quality in EAC Universities. The forum was conceived in 2010 to promote sustained dialogue on quality assurance issues, practices and challenges. It is organized in collaboration with the National Commissions and [...]
Fallen Don Dr. Jean de Dieu Baziruwiha A long serving senior lecturer at the Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) died on Monday on his way to work. Dr. Jean de Dieu Baziruwiha, was 49, and the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the Institute. He was born in Matyazo Sector of Ngororero District. He [...]
SFB 2011 graduation: Government has introduced a new students’ loan scheme for university students The government has established a new student loan scheme for university students with a sustainable financing mechanism that will cope with increased demand for tertiary education. According to a government paper explaining the new scheme, the mechanism will be maintain quality [...]
President Paul Kagame at village Urugwiro with Stanford students President Paul Kagame has said that he is not the vision, but only implementing a vision that was put together by the country. The president said this during a meeting with thirty three students from Stanford Business School on Tuesday who came along with Nobel Prize [...]
Students have come out in protest of the shortage of condoms in schools, as a way of HIV-Aids prevention. The scholars, from a technical school in Runda, Kamonyi District (French acronym ISETAR) hailed the sex-education classes they now regularly receive through the recently instituted Anti-Aids Clubs, but decried the lack of condom supply in schools [...]
Students supposed to join public Higher Institutions of Learning in the next academic year will do so under the proposed one University. The university which will be known as University of Rwanda (UR) is expected to start the integration of the seven public institutions in September this year. The idea of a one university was [...]
Universities have been urged to uphold education standards in order to improve quality of their graduates. The call was made by the -General of Education Planning in the Ministry of Education, Dr Erasme Rwanamiza at a graduation ceremony at the Institute of Lay Adventists of Kigali (INILAK) where a total of 631 graduated in different [...]
The National University of Rwanda (NUR) has gone up 527 places from last position of 4,158th in the Webometrics World universities ranking. The University currently stands on 3631st position in 21,000 Universities around the world. In a new edition of the Ranking Web of Universities, also known as Webometrics Ranking published in February 2013, the [...]
