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CEES WEEKLY BULLETIN

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND EXTERNAL STUDIES

22nd Dec 2017 -31st Jan 2018

MAK_CEES Team visits Mt.

Kenya University

On 13th January 2018, the Principal

CEES led a team from the college to

Mount Kenya University to discuss

issues on collaborative engagements

between the two universities. The

team Comprise of Prof F. Masaagazi-

Maasazi, Assoc Prof. Mugagga, Dr.

Nichola Itaaga and Dr. Henry

Busulwa

MAK DVCAA Dr. Ernest Okello

Ogwang and team from CEES visits

Lira Study Centre

Office of the Principal On 11th January 2018, the Deputy

Vice Chancellor in charge of

Academic Affairs (DVCAA) Dr. Ernest

Okello Ogwang visited Lira District

where he met with the LC 5 Chairman

Mr. Jude Okello and other officials.

Prof. Earnest Okello Ogwang and the

team from CEES also met the

community and also held a press

briefing on Q FM from 8pm to 9pm.

For more detailed information click

here

CEES Presents Graduands at the

68th Makerere University

Graduation Ceremony

On Tuesday 16th January, the College

of Education and External studies

presented graduands at Makerere

University Freedom Square at the

68th Makerere University Graduation

Ceremony. For more detailed

information click here

Principal CEES travelled to

Mbarara to attends the official

handover of the 2016 Rwandaire

Makerere University Visitation

report

On 29th December 2017, the

college Principal Prof. F. Masagazi-

Masaazi and other Makerere

University officials travelled to

Mbarara District specifically

Rwakitura to witness his

excellence the President of the

Republic of Uganda receive the

Makerere University 2016

visitation Report.

The University officials who

witnessed the hand over

included, Dr. Suruma, the

Chancellor, Eng Wana-Etyem, the

University Council Chairperson and

other council members and College

Principals.

The report was read by Justice

Ketrar Katunguka. She read the

summary of the report which had

the motivation issues if setting up

the visitation committee, the

methodology used, membership to

the committee among other issues

formed the background of the

report.

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Lessons Learnt from the 68th

Makerere University

Graduation-Message from CEES

Principal

Dear Staff,

On Tuesday 16th, January 2018,

CEES presented its graduands

for the award of PhDs, Graduate

diplomas, undergraduate

degrees and conferment

of undergraduate diplomas at

Freedom Square on the 68th

Makerere University

graduation Ceremony

The college management would

like to express its sincere

appreciation to all staff who

participated in the Chancellor's

procession and the Principal,

Deputy Principal and Deans

who read the names of the

CEES graduands.

In the same vain, College

management is very grateful for

the College Registrar together

with the team headed by Dr.

Nicholas Itaaga for the

exemplary work in clearing

and entering students marks to

enable them appear on the

graduation list. For the first

time, CEES did not have any

student on the addendum.

There was no commotion from

the College students claiming

that they are not on the list as

compared to other units.

the jubilation shouting was

very limited. The college was

applauded.

College Deputy Principal Led CEES

team UBTEB

On 17th January, 2018 the college

Deputy Principal, Ag. National

Coordinator and Head Department

of Open and Distance Learning

and met the Executive Secretary

UBTEB, Mr Onesmus Oyesigye to

discuss the Possibilities of having

u n d e r g r a d u a t e d i p l o m a

programmes; Diploma in Project

Management and Diploma in

Commonwealth Youth Programme

run by the Centre for Lifelong

Learning but assessed and

Awarded by UBETEB. The meeting

was successful and by August

2018 the above mentioned

programmes will resume but

under the UBTEB framwork

Among many recommendations, It was

recommended the College of Education

transfers to Kyambogo University, COBAMS

to MUBS and CHUSS to Nsamizi so as to

decongest Makerere University. This leaves

Makerere University with graduate training

and Science course. Click here for details

about the report

College Deputy Principal out of office

Assoc Prof. Muyinda will be out of Office fron 27th January 2018 . He travelled to Oslo and Grimstad, Norway, to attend to EPICA and DELP Projects activities. The EPICA Project is aimed at integrating an ePortifolio into the MUELE learning management system while the DELP project is aimed at building the capacity of Makerere University to integrate ICTs into pedagogical processes. The EPICA Project commenced in January

2018 and will run for 18 months. The DELP

Project commenced in 2013 and will run till

2019.

A kick-off meeting of all stakeholders of the EPICA Project is taking place in OSLO, Norway, from 27th to 31st January 2018. Thereafter, he will be proceeding to University of Agder, Grimstad from 1st till 7th February 2018 to undertake various activities on the DELP Project. While he is a way Dr. Ronald Bisaso acting as the College Deputy Principal until the Prof. Muyinda Paul comes back

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Surprisingly, our students did not cause

commotion and

LESSONS LEARNT

1) Working as a team and each one of us

playing his/her role in the specified time, is

very critical for organization success. Let us

keep this spirit

2) There is need to reorganize our teacher

training foundation courses to emphasize

the teaching profession ethics/code of

conduct. If our students are exposed to the

professional ethics during lecture training

and Teaching Practice, CEES will become

exemplary in many things.

3) Entering of students results should

always be done as soon as ratification of

results is complete at the department,

school levels. This applies to the holding of

the viva voce exams for masters and phd

students (The College will do its best to

facilitate the exercise)

We thank you and wish you a blessed new

semester

Yours Sincerely,

Prof. F. Masagazi-Masaazi,

Principal,

College of Education and External Studies,

Makerere university

CEES Management Meeting

On 25th January, 2018, the College

Management Team held a meeting

in the School of Distance and

Lifelong Learning, Conference hall.

The Meeting was chaired by the

College Principal and it was

intended to ensure smooth running

of the second semester 2017/2018.

Report from various academic and

administrative units were

presented

On 31 January 2018, the Principal

College of Education and external

Studies attended Makerere

University management where he

presented a college response

report to the 2016 Makerere

University visitation Committee

Report

CEES staff general meeting on visitation committee report On 25 Thursday 2018, the College held CEES staff general meeting, to receive CEES Committee Visitation Report. The report was read By Dr. Ronald Bisaso who also introduced other committee members

CEES Management Meeting

On Monday 22nd January, 2018,

College Management held a

meeting at 2:30pm in the

Principal's office, the meeting

was chaired by the college

Principal.

The meeting received responses

arising from the Visitation

Committee Report with special

emphasis to CEES, the responses

were presented to CEES

management team by Dr. Ronald

Bisaso who also introduced other

members of the committee

Academic Registrar

Call for Applications to Graduate

Programmes 2018/2019

The Academic Registrar,

Makerere University invites

applications for admission to

G r a d u a t e P r o g r a m m e s

(Postgraduate Diplomas, Masters

a n d D oc t or a l D e gr e e

Programmes) for the 2018/2019

For details Click here

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School of Education

On Wednesday 31st January 2018 at

10.00 am, the School held an Online

Meeting in DSTVE Chemistry Lab

School of Education (due to need for

internet). This was intended to en-

hance our capacity to conduct

The key presenters are senior staff

from the Open University of UK in

which all courses are entirely done

online.

online courses since this is being

proposed as one of the strategies to

decongest Makerere University.

Among the things that will be dis-

cussed include; designing materials

to support online learning, building

support systems for and online

learning, demonstrating some of the

OU online courses and many others

East African School of

Higher Education Studies

and Studies

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

AND CONSULTATIONS FOR POSTGRADUATE

STUDENTS AND ACADEMIC STAFF

On Monday 22nd January 2018 at

9am hosted a workshop and it was

facilitated by Dr. Ben Kei Daniel

from the Higher Education Develop-

ment Centre, University of Otago in

New Zealand starting at 9am in

Room 126, Curriculum Building.

He facilitated on the following two top-

ics: 1) Assessing Rigor in Qualitative

Research using the ‘TACT’ framework .

2) Analyse Qualitative Data using

Qualitative Data Analysis Software

(QDAS)

School of Distance and

Lifelong Learning

Student Exchange Programe - Uganda

Field Course 2018

Students from University of Agder

studying development studies have

been to Makerere university, CEES, un-

der the guidance of the department of

Adult and Community Education. The

department organised a briefing ses-

sion on at the beginning of the field

course and on 31st Jan 2018 the de-

briefing session was held.

For more detailed information Click

here

Institute of Open Distance

and e-Learning

Two online/ blended Academic pro-

grammes advertised for the year

2018/19

Makerere University, through the In-

stitute of Open Distance and eLearn-

ing is starting the first ever fully

online/blended Learning programmes

at Masters and Under Graduate Levels

in Feb 2018.

At Masters Level we are starting with

the Master of Instructional Design and

Technology (MIDT).

At Undergraduate level, we are start-

ing with the Bachelor of Youth Devel-

opment Work (BYDW) Programme.

The Advert for all the above men-

tioned programmes is now out.

For details click on the links below

Online Master of Instructional Design

and Technology (MIDT)

Bachelor of Youth Development Work

(BYDW) Online Programme

Call for BED Advert 2018/19

The Academic Registrar, Makerere University invites applications for admission to a three year Bachelor of Education External(BED) degree programme for the 2018/2019 academic year. For details Click here

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Institute of Education

Research

CEES staff lead by Prof. Mugagga Mu-wagga Anthony, the director of the insti-tute travelled to Busia to meet a team from Mt Kenya University to discuss mo-dalities on School Practice Collaboration

CEES Seminar Series

Seminar series presentations will soon resume, we will soon let you know when the first presentation is taking place

Compiled by

Isemaghendera Alex,

Web Administrator,

Ag Communication Officer, CEES