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Kampala, 23rd September 2021 – The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation hosted a virtual webinar under the theme “Accelerating youth employment through the TVET Sector.” This webinar was part of the “Transforming African Agricultural Universities to meaningfully contribute to Africa’s growth and development (TAGDev) programme”.... Continue Reading →

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), a network of 129 universities in 38 African countries, with funding from Carnegie Cooperation of New York is pleased to announce the following calls for proposals Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA) Research Grants: RU/2022/GTA/01 RUFORUM is pleased to pre-announce the availability of 40 Doctoral research grants... Continue Reading →

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) in partnership with the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa invites you to the Scientific Data Management training for Post-Graduate Students Using R Programming Language.  This is a follow-up training to provide detailed analysis on the use of different statistical methods to postgraduate students... Continue Reading →

Content is king for social media marketing, without it you have blank pages that are not communicating anything or engaging with anyone. In our recently ended training on this topic, we talked about Digital Writing and the How Tos of Content Management and Creation. You can re-watch Day 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMqiis_Jmz8) and Day 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMnh7Torf58) videos of... Continue Reading →

My name is Dr Margret Wambui Wahome, a registered veterinary surgeon in Kenya. I came in contact with RUORUM through Dr Lucy Njagi, a lecturer at University of Nairobi and she was the principal investigator of the project I did at Master level by then. While undertaking a research for my master’s degree project titled:... Continue Reading →

As part of the 7th Africa Higher Education Week and the RUFORUM Triennial Conference, RUFORUM has organized the RUFORUM Alumni Week under the theme: “Platform for Partnerships, Networking and Mentorship among RUFORUM Alumni to transform Africa’s Agriculture” Date: 27th September to 1st October 2021Time: 3pm to 5pm (EAT)Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3jmvW0j

USAF Studentpreneurs should stop focusing on writing plans and concentrate on making businesses happen (South Africa)Student entrepreneurs tend to be obsessed with writing business plans, how to access money, register their company, set up a bank account, and with buzzwords such as “business modelling”. Yet these obsessions, said Dr Johann van der Spuy, lecturer in... Continue Reading →

Robine Okello is an alumnus of Gulu University, Uganda with academic training in MSc. Agri-Enterprises Development and Bachelor of Business Administration and Management. Robine is advancing his career along the agricultural and applied economics and has obtained several certifications in Agriculture related courses and he is a recipient of the most outstanding MasterCard Foundation Scholarship... Continue Reading →

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), establishedby ten Vice Chancellors in 2004, is a consortium of 128 African universities operating within 38 countries spanning the African continent. RUFORUM is coordinated by a Secretariat hosted by Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. RUFORUM supports universities to address the important and largely unfulfilled role... Continue Reading →

Marius Affonfere was born in January 1993 and raised in Savalou district (Republic of Benin). In 2011, He obtained his Entry Level degree and he was granted a national scholarship for a Bachelor (BSc) degree in the School of Sciences and Techniques for Preservation and Processing of Agricultural Products at National University of Agriculture (Benin).... Continue Reading →

Mr.  Ben Sorowen is an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, at Kyambogo University. Mr.  Ben is a Ugandan, born on the 24th January, 1992. Ben got appointed at the Department of Mathematics as a Graduate Fellow in 2017, He enrolled for his master degree of Science in Mathematics at Mbarara... Continue Reading →

My name is Aaron Ekipetot Nanok, a MCF@RUFORUM alumnus. I entered Public Service in 2016, as an Agricultural officer but currently working as the section head for Agri-Nutrition in the department of Agriculture. It was in 2018 when the Chief Officer shared a MCF@RUFORUM scholarship on our department’s communication page. As an ambitious junior officer... Continue Reading →

Life was absolutely ugly for me when I completed my undergraduate studies. I was out of the university without a job and there was no capital for me to start up a business which could earn me a living. Fortunately, a friend of mine told me about RUFORUM scholarships under Transforming African Agricultural Universities to... Continue Reading →

It has been my dream to pursue a career in agricultural research. At an early age, my interest in agriculture blossomed into a passion. Growing up in a semi-arid region of Kenya, livestock and a few crops farming were the main sources of livelihood. Despite the role agriculture played, its potential was underutilized in production... Continue Reading →

Daily Monitor Researchers in Africa unite to tackle challenges (Africa)Africa’s researchers from the humanities and natural sciences have resolved to combine efforts and implement solutions unearthed from their findings to tackle major challenges that plague the continent. Dr John Mushomi from the Department of Population Studies at the Makerere University yesterday said the resolution was... Continue Reading →

An ODL training course for developing teachers’ competence in planning, preparing, and organising online and distance-based education started on September 9. The course has a total of 105 participants from HEIs in Kenya, Zambia and Uganda. ODL is short for Open and Distance Learning or Online and Distance Learning. Promoting ODL increases the accessibility of... Continue Reading →

Students of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at HAMK are excited about participating PBL-BioAfrica’s student project. Students are investigating solid waste management in Kenya and Zambia in collaboration with Steam’n Heat. What a challenge we have been handed! To gather students together and to make (hopefully) world-changing things. We have been asked to help research sustainable... Continue Reading →

Lors de la réunion annuelle des Vice-Chanceliers / Présidents / Directeurs de Section / Recteurs des Universités Membres de RUFORUM (voir les liens sur le Dépliant de RUFORUM et l’Aperçu de RUFORUM) qui s’est tenue le 11 novembre 2020, les Vice-Chanceliers ont réaffirmé leur engagement envers le Programme d’Assistanat d’Enseignement Supérieur (GTA) qu’ils ont initié... Continue Reading →

 During the annual meeting of Vice Chancellors/Presidents/Principals/Rectors of RUFORUM Member Universities (see links about RUFORUM flier and RUFORUM at a Glance) held on 11th November 2020, the Vice Chancellors re-affirmed their commitment to the Graduate Teaching Assistantship Program that they initiated in 2014. The objectives of the GTA are to: i) Improve the quality of... Continue Reading →

When I graduated with an Engineer degree in Chemistry and Agricultural Industries, I worked as an Assistant Lecturer at an Institution of Higher Education in Walungu in DR Congo. Later I got a job as Technical Secretary in a government institution in charge of tax collection. Despite the good paying job, my former classmates who... Continue Reading →