Uganda Martyrs University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions

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    • Ethical Positions in Built Environment Education 

      Olweny, Mark R. O.; Olweny, Charles L.M. (2010)
      Architecture has among its goals, to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of society. It is therefore inevitable that ethical decisions are made in the process making architecture. The perceived value of the product, ...

    • Ethics of a Brick: Ethical Positions in Built Environment Education in Uganda 

      Olweny, Mark R. O. (School of the Built Environment, University of Nottingham, UK, 2009-09-09)
      Architecture has among its goals, to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of society. It is therefore inevitable that ethical decisions are made in the process making architecture. The perceived value of the product, ...

    • Urban Open Spaces in Kampala, Uganda 

      Olweny, Mark R. O.; Adule, C. (Faculty of the Built Environment, Uganda Martyrs’ University, Uganda, 2008)
      Kampala is one of the few cities in Africa arguably of African origin, having been the location of the capital of the Kingdom of Buganda - one of the largest and oldest kingdoms in the region - for close to a century ...

    • 498: Integrating Sustainability and Environmental Design in an African Architecture Curriculum: 

      Olweny, Mark R. O. (Passive and Low Energy Architecture, 2008-10-28)
      While the majority of Ugandans live in energy poverty, contemporary architecture in the country is for the most part energy inefficient. Progress and development is shown through the inclusion of air-conditioners, while ...

    • Technology and Architecture Education in Uganda 

      Olweny, Mark R. O. (The Architectural Science Association ANZAScA, 2006)
      Architecture education is a relatively new undertaking in Uganda. Despite this opportunity to develop an updated curriculum and pedagogy, an old paradigm continues to persist; isolating the teaching of architectural ...

    • The relationship between pre-university schooling and university grades 

      Nshemereirwe, Connie V. (University of Twente, The Netherlands, 2014)
      Universities are concerned with selecting students with the highest potential for successfully pursuing university education. For universities in Uganda, this potential is, apparently, sufficiently indicated by student ...

    • Investigating the variation in student performance in the A'level examinations in Uganda: 

      Nshemereirwe, Connie V. (University of Twente, The Netherlands, 2014)
      Student performance in the A’Level national examinations in Uganda is the main criterion for selection for higher education, particularly university. About 2000 merit-based scholarships are available annually for the best ...

    • Estimating the difficulty of A'level examination subjects in Uganda 

      Nshemereirwe, Connie V. (University of Twente, The Netherlands, 2014)
      In order to gain access to institutions of higher learning in Uganda, including universities, all students sit a national examination at the end of A’Level, the scores of which determine their selection into various ...

    • Using participatory action research to improve vocational skills training for marginalised youth in Uganda: 

      Tukundane, Cuthbert; Zeelen, Jacques (International Journal of Training Research, 2015)
      Although vocational education and training is considered to be a good option for improving livelihood opportunities for marginalised youth in developing countries, it often suffers from an image problem. This situation ...

    • Characterising entrants into the University system in Uganda 

      Nshemereirwe, Connie V. (Association for Educational Assessment in Africa, 2011)
      The Inter-University Council of East Africa, together with the National Higher Education Quality Assurance bodies of the East African countries, has been developing a joint quality assurance framework for Higher Education ...

    • Training for Real: 

      Nshemereirwe, Connie V.; Rugumayo, A. I. (2005)
      Graduates of Engineering in Uganda face great challenges in the work place as they are expected to be fully prepared to start work with little or no further training. In view of this, training has to begin at the University, ...

    • Educating built environment professionals: 

      Olweny, Mark R. O.; Nshemereirwe, Connie V. (Faculty of Building Technology and Architecture, 2006)
      In 2000, the Uganda Martyrs University introduced a new built environment program, a Bachelor of Science in Building Design and Technology (BSc BDT), marking the first time a private institution had entered the field of ...

    • Lost opportunities and emerging possibilities: the place for collaboration in the built environment 

      Ndibwami, Alex (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 ...

    • People's perception of 'New' architecture: a diaogue between the architect, the architecture and the consumer 

      Ndibwami, Alex (Faculty of the Built Environment, Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda, 2013)
      While the design process is meant to be participatory, the limits to how many (potential) users are involved and how the design team interprets their needs is perhaps often substituted by empirical evidence, architectural ...

    • Architecture as Environment: perceptions on gender and community as determinants of comfort and energy use in buildings 

      Ndibwami, Alex (Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings, 2011-09-23)
      This paper investigates the extent to which notions of gender and community are expressed and promoted through materiality, spatial quality and passive design as a way to promote comfort and efficient energy use. Generally, ...

    • Finitely coloured ordinals 

      Mwesigye, F.; Truss, J. K (Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK, 2010)
      Abstract. Two structures A and B are n-equivalent if player II has a winning strategy in the n-move Ehrenfeucht-fraïssé game on A and B. Ordinals and m-coloured ordinals are studied up to n-equivalence for various values ...

    • Ugandan students' perspectives on the spread and prevention of HIV/AIDS: 

      Namazzi, Elizabeth (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2015-07)
      My study investigated perspectives that underlie Ugandan high school students’ understandings of the spread and prevention of HIV/AIDS and how they influenced by cultural practices. I adopted an interpretive case study ...

    • Mainstreaming Education for Sustainable Development in Uganda Martyrs University: A critical analysis of the strategy 

      Ssentongo, Jimmy Spire; Byaruhanga, Aloysius (Rhodes University Environmental Learning Research Centre, 2015)
      It has been observed by several scholars, commentators, and sustainability-related bodies that one of the most important ways of realising sustainable development is by integrating it in both what is taught and how it is ...

    • The Motivation Dilemma: 

      Mukokoma, Maurice (Uganda Martyrs University, 2016)
      Motivation cannot be avoided or ignored at any level and in whatever context. Managers use motivation in the workplace to inspire people to work, both individually and in groups, to produce the best results for business ...

    • The Case for an African Solution to Cybercrime: 

      Nkongho, Eno-Akpa, Rene (Uganda Martyrs University, 2016)
      Currently, Africa hosts 4 of 10 countries with the highest cybercrime levels in the world. To augment the inadequacy of municipal cyber legislations in Africa, the African Union Convention on Security in Cyberspace and ...