Tag Archives: UCU

Mukono, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Christian University-UCU has embarked on renovating Bishop Tucker Theological collage old main gate. It shall bear the university emblem and get a general facelift. The gate used to serve as the main entrance for the Anglican theological institution that used to train religious leaders …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …