Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Christian University-UCU has extended the deadline for the registration of continuing and new students by one week. Registration for UCU online academic semester ended on Friday, October 23. About 50 students among others who attended the zoom meeting on Friday pleaded with the …
Read More »Makerere, UCU defend online learning program
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University and Uganda Christian University have defended the online learning program. In a recent petition to Parliament, student leaders from Makerere University, Uganda Christian University (UCU), Kyambogo University and Uganda Martyrs’ University demanded that online learning should be suspended. They argued that the …
Read More »UCU to conduct students guild elections online
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Christian University-UCU has embarked on the process of conducting students’ guild elections using its own e-voting application named ‘e-Chagua,’ conjoined from a Kiswahili word meaning ‘choose’. The university is expected to conduct the voting exercise on November 16. The submission of applications by …
Read More »UCU secures free internet services for its e-learning platform
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Christian University has secured an offer for free internet services from MTN-Uganda to support its e-learning program. The University plans to officially resume it’s academic semester online this month after close to six months of inactivity as a result of a lockdown that …
Read More »UCU students stranded in hostels without food
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dozens of Uganda Christian University-UCU students stuck in off campus hostels are in need of food relief, URN has learnt. The student guild has so far registered over 160 of the estimated 300 students spread in 28 private hostels and rentals in need of …
Read More »Museveni calls for tax exemption of private universities
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has called for a review of the tax policy where private education institutions are exempted from paying taxes. Museveni said this during the launch of the Uganda Christian University (UCU) run on Saturday, 22 February 2020 in Mukono. The run is …
Read More »Museveni directs installation of security lights around UCU campus
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has directed security agencies to install security lights along all roads surrounding the Uganda Christian University Campus in Mukono, to curtail attacks against students. The directive followed a request by the UCU guild president Timothy Kadaga on the basis of cumulative cases …
Read More »UCU pilots e-voting app to ease campus polls
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Christian University-UCU is piloting an online voting application to be used in guild elections across all its campuses. The university has previously been challenged to involve students from all its sister campuses in deciding their Guild President whose election is conducted at the main …
Read More »Dr. Mushengyezi new UCU Vice Chancellor
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Associate professor Dr. Aaron Mushengyezi is the new Vice Chancellor Uganda Christian University-UCU Mukono. Dr. Mushengyezi, who is also the dean of the department of languages, literature and communications at Makerere University, was appointed on February 1, 2020 in Mityana at a meeting involving …
Read More »UCU outlines policy on honorary degrees, quack professors
Christian University Vice Chancellor Says No to quack Professors Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Christian University Vice-Chancellor, Dr Joel Senyonyi he will not award honorary doctorate degrees to undeserving persons in the country. Reverend Dr Senyonyi on Friday broke the silence by revealing that somebody approached him requesting …
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