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Can new curriculum boost Mombasa port efficiency? Summary The East Africa region quest to improve efficiency in cargo clearance has gone a notch higher after the industry stakeholders validated updated curriculum for clearing agents and freight forwarders. The new training curriculum was necessitated by the gaps identified in the already mandatory East Africa Customs and Freight Forwarding Practicing Certificate (EACFFPC) that the clearing agents are supposed to undertake since 2007. Wednesday ...

Uganda Marketers Society (UMS) and the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) have signed an MoU for a Strategic Partnership to enhance professional marketing standards and practices in Uganda. The partnership will see CIM appoint ambassadors and advisory representatives to the UMS organisation, to ensure that marketing professionals in Uganda benefit from: The adoption of CIM Professional Marketing Competencies to establish best practices. The opportunity to become chartered marketers by takin...

23.02.2021 Uganda Marketers Society and Chartered Institute of Marketing announce alliance to enhance professional marketing standards Uganda Marketers Society (UMS) and the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) have signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) for a Strategic Partnership to enhance professional marketing standards and practices in Uganda. The partnership will see CIM appoint ambassadors and advisory representatives to the UMS organisation, to ensure that mar...

One Teacher, One Laptop - Why Teachers Must Embrace the Digitization Project Introduction The provision of education has moved beyond the traditional classroom face-to-face session to online learning (synchronous or asynchronous) in several developed countries. As Ghana could not, over the years, move with the digital tide, the ravaging effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on education has left us with no option than to, with open arms, embrace online teaching and learning. It is as a result of enha...

2020 saw two books by Survey team members appear in print. The Oxford handbook of English grammar, edited by Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova, provides a wide-ranging and authoritative critical survey of current knowledge of the grammar of the English language, and competing research methodologies that may be applied to it. Sean Wallis’s monograph Statistics in Corpus Linguistics...

From Birdcage Walk Dear Member, And so, as our Institution turns 174 years old this month, it’s time to report on the latest changes and modernisation we have underway to ensure we are ‘fit for purpose’ as a learned society intended to bring “an impulse to inventions likely to be useful to the world”.  For those of you who have been following our recent history, you will know that Dr Kerry Mashford has been leading our Implementation Group putting the final touches to the ...

In a bid to change the future for hundreds of millions of children impacted by the global learning deficit, the Commonwealth Education Trust (CET) and its partners are today inviting millions of teachers and education leaders around the world to use their new approach to invest in teachers. The charity is today offering global access to its new digital professional teacher training programme, Teach2030.

A five-day workshop organised for lecturers at the Department of Basic and Early Childhood Education under the Faculty of Educational Studies of the University of Education, Winneba has ended at the Volta Hotel at Akosombo in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

We gathered up ram lambs out of tupping groups a few days over their 17-day first cycle. These ewes joined up with some of the older stock rams, that were raddled to mark changeover and hopefully highlight any lates. With lambing so late outside, we don’t raddle rams the first cycle – just really looking for clarification on sires at the change-over and a check that everybody has been working. With so much mud around during tupping it has been easy to see that the rams have been jumping...

  The National Museum of the Royal Navy, a registered charity, was newly formed in September 2009, after growing and evolving from its origins as a dockyard museum in 1911. It is one of the few national museums located outside London, with sites across the UK. The National Museum is a unique, fast paced organisation, with a diverse income stream and an innovative and project focused approach. The organisation has a simple Vision, to be the world’s most inspiring naval museum. Your new role T...