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Author: The Standard Editor
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The Uganda Christian University (UCU) 25th Guild government has successfully held its first post-COVID interfaculty tournament, which lasted for several weeks and culminated in an exciting finale on Friday. The tournament marked the first of its kind since 2019, and it was a great opportunity for students to come together and enjoy a sense of community through sports.
Uganda Christian University (UCU) has added a new guesthouse to its collection of hospitality facilities. The Kingdom View Guest House, located on Besania Hill, Mukono, was acquired as a ministry donation from The Rock Kingdom LTD (UG), funded by The Rock Outreach (USA) late 2022. The guesthouse, completed in 2016, becomes the university’s fifth hospitality facility, but the first outside the precincts of UCU’s main campus. The other four guesthouses — Eunice, Garry, Missionary House and Tech Park Units — are within the university.
Developing students’ innovation competence is becoming increasingly important in higher education, yet few studies have actually investigated whether current learning environments are aimed at promoting this competence and whether students perceive that they have mastered it.
A grant from the Uganda National Council for Sciences and Technology made the research possible. The project’s goal was to develop and distribute compound feeds for crickets with a protein content of 50%-65%.
“Usually the big boys would give us a run for our money, but I made a tackle on this one guy, and people started screaming. I was the talk of that night’s prep,” he said with a smile. “It was exhilarating.”
Uganda Registration Service Bureau (URSB) held an intellectual property sensitization workshop for Uganda Christian University’s (UCU) Directorate of Research, Innovations, and Partnerships.
As a child, Juliet Sekabunga Nalwanga was fascinated whenever she saw tellers in banks with bundles of cash. As such, she made up her mind to work in a bank. However, as she grew up, she realized that the money saved there was not actually theirs. She started feeling the pull to save human life instead. She opted for a career in medicine.
Mugisha further suggested that the universities, especially UCU, promote inclusive studies on research and innovation so as to compete favorably in the market in the new economy.
The Men of Purpose group organised their monthly meeting this Saturday in the Principals hall at Uganda Christian University under the topic “What to make of my youth?” that was well in the interest of public opinion.
The outgoing leadership of the Law Love Fellowship has handed over the responsibility of the service to the new incoming leadership at an event held at Kingdom View, an extension of the university.