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Accessibility to higher education remains a big challenge particularly for students from rural Uganda.

— Mary Okwakol

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What good will it profit you if you get this paper while your young family crumbles?

This is a drop in the ocean when we are talking about getting more women to hold leadership positions. We still have a lot of work to do as a continent to change this.

Take good care of your health and wellbeing. The only way I manage is by doing exercise every day! It is very important that all parts of your body receive that flow of blood.

There are only 40 women vice-chancellors heading up the roughly 1,500 universities across Africa.

Dropping age limits for applicants would help.

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Julian Assange

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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