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Excluded youth and skills training in Uganda.
(2015-02)
This paper shares insights into how the youth population in Uganda that is excluded from education can best be helped to develop skills necessary for the labour market and for other livelihood opportunities, such as ...
Lost opportunities and emerging possibilities: the place for collaboration in the built environment
(2012-06-27)
This paper is part of an ongoing study that delves into the issues that inspire and/or inhibit
collaboration between built environment practitioners in Uganda. It is situated in the context of discourse on the roles of ...
In-Sample Spatio-temporal Predictions by Multivariate Singular Spectrum Analysis
(Elsevier, 2015)
In this paper, we present a method of utilizing spatial information, usually intrinsic in spatial data sets, to improve the quality of temporal predictions within the framework of singular spectrum analysis (SSA) techniques. ...
Learning for sustainable futures:
(2015-09)
With 70% of Uganda’s population of 34.9 million below the age of 30 and 56% below 18 years, the country has one of the youngest populations in the world. The youth bulge that the country is experiencing demands for educational ...
Survival Fate’ or ‘Livelihood Option’? :
(2016-03)
Uganda boasts of her natural resource wealth by day, and groans over its mismanagement by nightfall! Expectation and suspicion paradoxically typify the state of affairs of Uganda’s natural resource stock; flora, fauna and ...
Embracing values beyond the Financial Value:
(2015-10)
The dominant discourse upholds an idea that accumulated financial capital (money) can reliably address climate change challenges. What is often neglected is the fact that since the current trends of climate change is ...
Environmental Sustainable Design and Energy Efficiency in Architecture Education in East Africa
(2013)
The inclusion of Environmental Sustainable Design (ESD) in architectural education is an
important paradigmatic shift for contemporary architecture education, in view of growing
concerns for Energy Efficiency (EE) and ...
Socialisation in Architecture Education
(2013)
Architecture education is an engaging process; long hours in the design studio, a high level of one-on-one instruction, and intense peer review. The process, which extends over the years of formal education, is instrumental ...
Socialisation:a perilous transition from novice to architect
(Architectural Education Otherwhere, 2014-08-06)
Architectural education includes both formal and informal learning components, instrumental in the transformation of novices into architects. The informal component incorporates tacit aspects of education that can’t be ...
Long-term socio-economic development through harnessing the demographic dividend:.
(2015)
In the last thirty years, Sub Saharan Africa has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. The region now has the youngest population in the world with some 600 million people under the age of 25. This young and ...