Trending
- Lady Cardinals’ win boosts Super League return hopes
- Mob killing and arson: Deaths of rugby playerand Kyambogo student shocks many
- 100 students receive certificates after skills training programme
- UCU to host Akii-Bua memorial and National Track and Field Championships
- Archbishop calls for unity at Martyrs Day celebrations
- Lessons from Uganda Martyrs, students speak out
- How the martyrs teach us about more than faith
- First-year law students tasked to seek help when needed
Feature
To understand how today’s youth perceive the legacy of these martyrs, we spoke to some Uganda Christian University (UCU) students. Their reflections suggest that the fire of 1886 has not gone out, it has simply changed form.
As a journalist, I am not outside this reflection. Our profession is meant to speak uncomfortable truths. But we do not always succeed. The pressures are real from economic to political and sometimes to personal fears.
The event was held to welcome the first-year students to the School of Law and UCU community at large and to familiarise them with multiple systems within the university, such as UCU’s digital library and the Alpha student portal. It was organised as a joint effort between the School of Law and the UCU Law Society.
The election of Mushengyezi, who has previously served on advisory boards of many other organisations, saw UCU join Tanzania’s University of Dar es Salaam as the second African institution on the board of the five-year-old association of universities.
It doesn’t matter how old your child is; he or she needs your attention. Attending to an individual child is when you exclusively decide to deal with each child independently for a given period of time. This relationship between individual children can be established at any level. However, the best time to start is when the child is still young. You can bend a tree in any direction when it is young.
Farmers in Katente Village, Nakisunga sub-county in Mukono district, have long benefited from the classroom knowledge of students at Uganda Christian University’s (UCU) Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. Likewise, from these workers among crops and livestock, students have gained an understanding of how their curriculum is applied outside of lectures and textbooks.
Mid last year, Carroline Nyange Kihumuro stumbled on an advertisement by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU), calling for applications from graduates who wished to pursue a course in professional accountancy as scholars.
Because Lubogo knew that with the demise of Mugeni, he was all alone against the world, he had to make use of the resurgence in his energy and spirits. And that is partly responsible for an achievement that the law lecturer registered.
Yohana Eyob Ghebrekristos always held the notion that her dream would not become a reality through magic, but rather, by sweat, determination and hard work. Yohana dreams of a career in dental surgery. And she is almost there. She is in year five, the final year of study for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery at Uganda Christian University (UCU).
Advertisement
