Author: The Standard Editor

“You cannot be doing sports and say you are working; that is playing,” President Yoweri Museveni remarked during his speech that ended in 2022 in regards to sports in Uganda.

The career journey of Uganda Christian University (UCU) School of Dentistry student Peter Kabuye started out with bumps. In 2018, Kabuye was staring at a bleak future after missing out on studying dentistry at Makerere University, which he thought was the only institution with the program. 

Is this true, or are we being led to believe it? I’m not convinced, not even a little, because this cannot be normal.

Tendo Jethro Ddungu long dreamed of being a doctor. However, it was not until he got to Senior Four that he shared his desires with his father, a specialist in public health. Upon receiving the news of his son’s career passion, Dr. Peter Ddungu did not think twice. He straightaway told his son to choose another career. Dr. Peter’s stand shocked his son, who had imagined his father, whom he looked up to, would be proud of him for choosing to follow in his footsteps.

Timothy Ddumba, a second-year student pursuing the Bachelor of Information and Technology, has finally been sworn in as the 25th guild president of Uganda Christian University (UCU), two months after the guild election of November 18, 2022.

In Uganda, policy generation and communication are occasionally left for the state and key stakeholders to play a role in the whole process, given they do not have or lack vast knowledge on the matter discussed.

While this may be achievable for some teachers, there’s no doubt that so many others are struggling to meet these demands due to financial restraints.

With the online transition of all postgraduate programs, it has become nearly impossible for lecturers and students to meet in person. On January 20, the Department of Computing and Technology under the Faculty of Engineering organized a meet and greet session for the students and lecturers at the university.

One day, they decided to imitate what they had seen the older boys doing. “We didn’t know the basics of the game.” The tackles were kicks. You would jump, kick your friend, and make sure they fell. “We never played the game again because everyone was in pain after,” Wanyama narrated.

Listening to Joy Mwesigwa’s path to pursuing a course in human medicine at Uganda Christian University (UCU), one cannot help but conclude that, indeed, this was a predetermined route for the 21-year-old.