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Students need academic knowledge, but they also need experience. They need theory, but they should know how to use it. They need qualifications, but they also need to learn the ability to adapt.
I hope to build a career in public procurement. Procurement is a sensitive field that requires integrity, and I hope to contribute to ensuring proper accountability in the use of public resources. I am also open to opportunities in academia because I would enjoy teaching and mentoring future students.
The Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI) has appointed Professor Martin Lwanga as its new Director General and CEO. This is a major milestone for the renowned institution, as it marks the first time a Ugandan has risen to such a high position within the organization.
A Uganda-based thinktank, the Economic Policy Research Center, estimates that 41% of the jobs in the micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises were lost in Uganda as a result of the Covid pandemic. The job of Judith Nabwire, a Uganda Christian University (UCU) alumna and a social worker, was part of that statistic.
Joining the university in 2018, Enock Wanderema wanted to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Education. Drawing the love for teaching from his mother, who is a primary teacher, Wanderema wanted to take the same path. “I admired her work ethic and how she associated with people. She is very calm, and I thought that was a quality I got from teaching,” he said.
When two-year-old Karen relocated with her parents from the USA to Japan for missionary work, little did she know that that act was an initiation into her future life.
August 20 is the birthday of Charles Lwanga Miti, a year-two student of the Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance at Uganda Christian University (UCU). Miti chose an unconventional way to celebrate his birthday in 2022, by walking 50 miles from Kampala in central Uganda to Jinja in eastern Uganda.
When Mary Teophira Kagoire Ocheng applied to pursue a course at Makerere University in Uganda, her score in the national exams earned her the Bachelor of Education course toward a career that was not in her vision. Thus, she initially rejected the offer. However, her contemporaries prevailed upon her, and eventually convinced her to take up the course.
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