The initial focus of Scholars 4 Africa funding is the School of Business & Applied Technology at Clarke International University, Kampala, Uganda.

 This is because the co-ordinator of this Scholars 4 Africa fund,  Jamie MacAlister,  based in London, spent 18 months in Uganda setting up the School of Business & Applied Technology at CIU, and continues to visit it regularly to lecture.

 The vision for SoBAT , and indeed CIU in general, is to offer a distinctively practical form of education, with a focus on skills and character.  93% of CIU graduates, which has been in operation since 2008,  are in some form of employment,  a statistic which stands in stark contrast to the experience of graduates from other universities in Uganda.

 There is also an enormous opportunity for Uganda to increase the wealth and prosperity in the country through more effective work in key sectors like health, ICT in Health and business generally, but one of the main “bottlenecks” in achieving this is the level of capability of management and staff in those areas. CIU is relentlessly focused on meeting the capability needs in those sectors

 The School of Business & Applied Technology aspires to usher in a new way of training and tooling business professionals.  We aim to become a leading Ugandan business school that offers development of global business skills, applicable to a local business context aimed at achieving a social development agenda which increases wealth and welfare in Uganda, building on current business school best practice, the latest technological capabilities and capitalising on Uganda’s growing faith-based culture