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Starting in 1922 as a humble technical school, with 14 day students studying Carpentry, Building and Mechanics, Makerere University has grown to become one of the oldest and most prestigious Universities in Africa.
Makerere University (/ m ə ˈ k ɛr ər i /; [6] Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922, and the oldest currently active university in East Africa. [7] It became an independent national university in 1970.
With a student body of around 38,000 and comprising 10 constituent colleges, Makerere University also offers evening and external study programmes. It is a research-led institution and boasts partnerships with government, industry and other universities.
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- How Culture Influences Young Adults
- Cultural Evolution and Transmission
- Beyond Makerere
We conducted our research with the help and expertise of a team mostly composed of recent Makerere alumni. The team interviewed over 3,000 Makerere students in 2015 who were then living in the halls as well as over 1,000 alumni who attended Makerere between 1970 and 2000. In our article, we advance that hall cultural influence is stronger for inter...
How stable are these findings over time, though? The advantage of interviewing alumni that graduated between 1970 and 2000 is that we can learn whether they change over time. We found that hall cultural influence seems to wane over time. Cultural influence was smaller among alumni, likely because they left Makerere a few decades ago. We also learne...
The broader question of cultural influence is ever-present across Africa and beyond. It extends to any university, to political organisations such as political parties, and to professional organisations, including labour unions and business associations. The University of Ghana, for example, provides a comparable setting of young elite socialisatio...
- Joan Ricart-Huguet
Jul 27, 2024 · With ladies like Joy Kwesiga, Ruth Mukama, to mention but two, becoming its key educators, Makerere University is now a bastion of gender equality.
Established in 1922 as a technical college, Makerere University was affiliated to the University of London until 1963 when it became one of the three constituent colleges of the University of East Africa.
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Starting in 1922 as a humble technical school, with 14 day students studying Carpentry, Building and Mechanics, Makerere University has grown to become one of the oldest and most prestigious Universities in Africa.
