TCA News

  • Exams start but several candidates miss out

    03 Mar 2021

    Hundreds of schools across the country started their Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exams amid series of difficulties. Some schools had to adjust to the new norm of life brought about by Covid-19 as candidates sat in shifts doing practical exams. Mr Julius Opasso, the head teacher of Teso College Aloet, told Daily Monitor that the candidates had to sit in shifts to meet the standard operational procedures (SOPS) set by the Ministry of Health. “It was not the norm here, Teso College is a science school, but in order to observe the SOPs, we have had to have two…
  • Museveni appoints Atingi-Ego as BoU deputy governor

    30 Mar 2020

    Dr Michael Atingi-Ego Old Boy (OB) TCA has been appointed as the new Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda (BoU), by President Museveni. Mr Museveni, announced the appointment in a Sunday tweet, a day after the  Central Bank board of directors, unanimously picked the Director of Research at Bank of Uganda, Dr Adam Mugume, to perform the duties of the deputy governor. He is a seasoned economic policy official who has served in several capacities at various institutions. He obtained his first degree from Makerere University and later proceeded for post graduate studies in the United Kingdom where he got a…
  • Honouring Professor Omaswa’s Legacy of Service to Medicine, Africa, and the World

    24 Jul 2019

    Dr. Francis Gervase Omaswa’s tremendous humanitarian efforts dedicated to the education, training, retention, and migration of healthcare workers through his global Health Workforce (HWF) initiative and to building pro-people health and medical systems across Africa and the rest of the world have earned the esteemed doctor the Third Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize for Medical Services. Background: Born in the Republic of Uganda in 1943. Obtained MBChB at University of East Africa, Makerere Medical School, and Master of Medicine in Surgery at Makerere University. Current Executive Director of African Center for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST). Global Health Award Recipient…
  • Evolution at Work? New Bone Growth From Excessive Smartphone Use

    26 Jun 2019

    Feel the back of your head, where your skull meets your spine. If you can feel a bony lump, like a spur, under your skin, then you belong to the growing number of people whose bodies have adapted to frequent smartphone use. Such bony growths on the back of the head have been observed before, but only among the elderly. The bone buildup on the tendon or ligament where the spine and skull meet is called an external occipital protuberance. However, this phenomenon wherein there is additional build-up of bone that arises from the external occipital protuberance, forming a sort…
  • The Great Leap Into a Black Hole

    10 Jun 2019

    On the 10th of April of this year (EST), Earthlings beheld for the first time a real image of one of the most mysterious objects in the universe - the black hole. The image is blurry, at best - a black circle with a fuzzy orange and yellow glowing ring around it. What’s the big deal? An inquiring students’ mind would want to know: What are those textbook images of “black holes?” Where did they come from? How were these images created? Britannica.com defines a black hole as a “cosmic body of extremely intense gravity from which nothing, not even…
  • The Periodic Table 150 Years Later

    10 Jun 2019

    Last March of this year marks the 150th anniversary of the creation of the periodic table. To commemorate this - one of the most important scientific achievements ever made - the United Nations has designated 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table. It was in March 1869 when Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev arranged into a table all 63 elements known at that time. The arrangement was based on each element’s atomic mass, as scientists then did not know much about the other properties that made up the elements. But Mendeleev’s original concepts proved to be sound even decades…
  • The Connection Between Physical and Emotional Pain

    10 Jun 2019

    Physical pain is the body’s response to damage, such as from injury or illness. It begins as a neurological response, when signals travel from the source and through pain receptors - called nociceptors - to the brain. In addition to the physical sensation, however, an emotional response can also be triggered when pain signals interact with areas of the brain that are involved in thinking and emotion, or as a result of a subjective perception of pain. According to Toronto’s Krembil Brain Institute senior scientist, Karen Davis, “There's quite a pattern of activity that permeates through the brain that leads…
  • Screen Time and Sleep Deprivation in Teenagers

    10 Jun 2019

    Studies have linked screen time - time spent on smartphones, tablets, and computers - to poor sleep quality and sleep deprivation in teenagers. Gadgets have practically become an indispensable appendage for most of us; the real world disappears as soon as we bend our necks and get sucked into the virtual world through our gadgets. It is not surprising that the mental stimulation we get from hours of screen time, particularly before bedtime, can cause disrupted sleep and poor quality of sleep. Researchers have also looked at how the blue light emitted by these screens can affect the brain’s clock…
  • It Goes Without Saying – Processed Meat is Bad for You

    10 Jun 2019

    Scientists have warned us time and again of the cancer risks of eating processed meat on a regular basis. Numerous studies have shown a link between an increased risk for bowel cancer and high consumption of processed meat. But exactly how much processed meat does it take to put people at risk for bowel cancer? A recent study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology and funded by Cancer Research UK, looked at the average consumption of processed meat in the UK - which is 76 grams per day - and whether or not this amount increases risk for bowel…
  • Chinese Language to Be Offered as Part of Secondary School Curriculum

    14 Jan 2019

    Teso College Aloet is one of the 20 schools chosen to offer Chinese as a language option in the school curriculum, along with Arua Public SSS, St Catherine Girls’ SSS, Trinity College Kabale, Nyakasura School Fort Portal, and Luyanzi College Kampala. The new program is expected to start at the beginning of the 2018 school year. [Side_Content] Ugandans who learn Chinese will be more able to negotiate effectively with Chinese people, and their knowledge of the language and the Chinese way of doing business will only help them in their dealings with this economic powerhouse. According to the Uganda Investment…