COVID-19 Updates: Uganda Registers 8 new COVID-19 as Recoveries Clock 409

June 17, 2020, 12:40 pm

By Rogers Wanambwa KIU, Main Campus - The Ministry of Health has this morning confirmed 8 new COVID-19 cases from a total sample of 2,526 tests that were done yesterday, June 16.The eight cases include two cases that are truck drivers from Kenya via the Malaba Point of Entry, two cases are a turn b...

KIU Trivia: June 17 in the Present and the Past

June 17, 2020, 11:33 am

What’s Happening Today?World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. This is a United Nations observance each June 17. Its purpose is to raise awareness of the presence of desertification and drought, highlighting methods of preventing desertification and recovering from drought. Each year's gl...

KIU Business Desk: East African Banks Severely Affected by COVID-19

June 16, 2020, 3:26 pm

KIU, Western Campus - Central banks in East Africa have been cutting interest rates to encourage businesses to borrow, but the strategy is not working, according to a BBC report.Kenya and Uganda have reduced their benchmark rates to 7% and Rwanda's central bank has pushed its key lending rate down t...

COVID-19 Updates: Entebbe Referral Hospital Discharges 47 More COVID-19 Patients

June 16, 2020, 2:48 pm

By Rogers Wanambwa KIU, Main Campus - Entebbe Grade B Hospital yesterday, June 15, discharged 47 more COVID-19 patients who have recovered, most of them truck drivers. Dr Henry Mwebesa, Director of Health Services at the Ministry of Health said that all recoveries had two tests done on the...

KIU Book Club: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

June 16, 2020, 2:26 pm

By Rogers Wanambwa KIU, Main Campus - Have you ever wondered why literature written by Africans is hard to find? I always do! Chimamanda's style of writing is so captivating that when you start reading her works like this one or her other books like Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus...

COVID-19 Updates: Uganda's COVID-19 Cases Surpass 700 Mark

June 16, 2020, 2:11 pm

By Stuart BogereKIU, Main Campus - Uganda’s COVID-19 cases have surpassed the 700 mark as 19 tested positive yesterday, June 15.  The Ministry of Health has revealed that these cases are from the 2,212 samples that were tested yesterday.6 of the new cases were among the1,451 samples that were tes...

KIU Trivia: June 16 in the Present and the Past

June 16, 2020, 1:55 pm

What’s Happening Today?The Day of the African Child. This day has been celebrated on June 16 every year since 1991, when it was first initiated by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). It honours those who participated in the Soweto Uprising in 1976 on that day. It also raises awareness of the ...

COVID-19 Updates: 9 More Ugandans Test Positive for Coronavirus

June 15, 2020, 5:28 pm

By Stuart BogereKIU, Main Campus - Uganda has registered 9 new cases of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health confirms. In a statement by Dr.Henry Mwebesa, the Director of Public Health at the ministry, the new cases were from the 2,677 samples tested on 14th June 2020.Four of the confirmed cases were am...

Gaziosmanpsa University, Turkey

Kampala International University formalized a collaboration with Gaziosmanpasa University, Turkey through a Memorandum of Understanding signed on 22 September 2017. The details of the collaboration include staff and students' training, workshop and conference organization, target...

Teclab Ltd-The Engineers Laboratory, Mapera Road, Kampala, Uganda

To continue and promote collaboration between KIU and TECLAB LTD for an extension of five years

The Government of The Federal Republic of Nigeria

The government of the Federal Government of Nigeria shall deploy Technical Aid Corps (TAC) volunteers to KIU with aim:-assisting in meeting the assessed and perceived manpower needs,sharing Nigeria’s experienced and expertise on manpower,facilitating meaningful contacts between youths of Nigeria a...

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited, Tamil Nadu, India

To have collaboration and build a long term, mutually beneficial partnership for better healthcare delivery and enhancement o healthcare capacity of KIU

SRM Institute Of Science And Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India

To promote cooperation in the fields of education, science and technology on principal of reciprocity and equality and to facilitate exchange programmes between the two institutions in the areas such as: Exchange of students • Exchange of faculty membersPromotion of joint research projectsExchang...

Wadhwani Foundation, India

Strengthening entrepreneurship education through deploying systematic approach to optimizing and increasing impact of teachers and training programs, providing students opportunity to become entrepreneurial skilled as well as enable aspiring graduating students who start meaningful ventures by conne...

University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Cooperate in a broad range of areas, initially in research collaboration in Research Methodology and Educational Technology and to work together for mutual benefit

Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Starkville, Mississippi

Enhancing the educational and research opportunities and experience of their students and faculty.Promote: Opportunity for qualified students enrolled in the University to study in the partnering universityTo develop cooperative endeavours in research and educationExchange educational and cultural ...

Mevlana Exchange Programme, Turkey - Academic Mobility

The Mevlana Exchange program between Kampala International University and the Gaziosmanpasa University,  Turkey supports Staff and Students Exchange aimed at building capacities across the two universities. Students from Kampala International University get to spend one (minimum) or two (m...

Uskudar University, Istanbul, Turkey

Promoting joint research worksDeveloping students exchange programs and organisation of programs granting dual diplomasExchange of academic research data and related materialsCooperation in publication activitiesOrganisation of joint academic and scientific activities. ...

The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

To promote cooperation in teaching, research and service to the community by working together on activities and projects where there is alignment of strategy and objectives.

Singhania University, Rajasthan, India

To develop academic and educational cooperation, establish a collaborative program between the two universities and to cooperate in their mutual interests for a range of higher education activities mainly in Medical, Applied Health Science, Para-Medical, MMBS & Management and Research in Medical...

Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Ambala, India

cooperation in higher education, knowledge transfer and researchShort and long-term faculty and student exchangeCollaborative academic programmesJoint examinersSkills developmentHolding joint academic events such as seminars/workshops.

Sharda University, Greater Noida, Delhi, India

To develop academic and educational cooperation and to promote mutual understanding between the two institutions.

University of Western Ontario, Also Called Western University, Ontario, Canada

Explore opportunities in general areas of academic training, collaborative research, scholarly collaboration, student and faculty exchange, community-university linkage and identify funding

Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

To promote cooperation in teaching, research and service to the community

Kyambogo University, Kampala

To provide laboratories for students of Mechanical Engineering to carry out practical lessons

University of Nairobi, Nairobi

Focus is to ensure optimal theoretical and practical training of dentistry students and effective dental practice and research.

University of Rwanda, Kigali

Joint curricular activitiesCollaboration on Doctoral student exchange and on writing co-supervised doctoral thesisJoint extra curricular activities in academic and scientific fieldsExchange of studentsExchange of publicationsCollaborative research projects...

University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf/Germany

joint curriculum activities and teaching such as summer schoolsCollaboration of Doctoral students exchange and on writing co-supervised Doctoral thesisJoint extra- curricular activities in academic and scientific fieldsCollaborative research projectsCollaborative academic and scientific publication...

University of Cagliari, Italy

Collaborate in offering of Programs (Jointly or alternatively), research and student/staff exchanges