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Tag Archives: Aaron Mushengyezi

Universities reject demands to reduce tuition

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  A section of University Vice Chancellors has rejected a demand by students for a reduction of tuition fees.  On Wednesday, Makerere University Vice-Chancellor Barnabas Nawangwe, Kyambogo University’s Prof. Eli Katunguka and Uganda Christian University’s Dr Aaron Mushengyezi met the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga following …

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UCU fundraising to support lecturers affected by lockdown

Mukono, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The new vice-chancellor of Uganda Christian University Dr Aaron Mushengyezi is starting a fundraising drive to support lecturers cope with the effects of Covid-19 lockdown. The university administration suspended payment of all its contract and full-time staff in June.  The then vice-chancellor Rev. Canon. Dr John …

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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 …

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UCU gets green light to admit medicine, dentistry students

Mukono, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The National Council for Higher Education has approving admissions of medicine and dentistry students at Uganda Christian University-UCU. The University had been directed to halt admissions in the two courses for lack of appropriate infrastructure and equipment early this year following the third joint inspection …

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UCU vice chancellor roots for an industrial park on Ntaawo land

Mukono,  Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Dr Aaron Mushengyezi, the new Vice-Chancellor of Uganda Christian University, Mukono is fronting the establishment of an industrial park on the controversial Church land at Ntaawo, in Mukono Central Division. The land measuring about 649 acres was donated to Bishop Tucker Theological College in 1939 …

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