The equipment is geared towards enhancing practical training in multi-media storytelling and production, a key emphasis at the school. Among the equipment are still and video cameras, laptops, projectors, and other assorted accessories. This is the first batch, but another batch will be received at the end of the year.
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University proves insect value in nutrition and alleviating food waste
The Uganda Christian University (UCU) Faculty of Agricultural Sciences has teamed up with crickets – the insect and not the sport – in a successfully piloted food chain project that alleviates hunger and malnutrition. The ‘Food Waste-2-Cricket Feed’ enterprise produces cricket feed from food waste and then turns the insects into a nutritious food supplement.
View More University proves insect value in nutrition and alleviating food wasteUCU, Makerere win sh3.3bn project for migration and mobility e-learning
Six African universities, including Uganda Christian University (UCU) and Makerere University, are part of a consortium to implement a sh3.3 billion (about € 799,974) project focused on building capacity for reporting migration and mobility across borders in Sub-Saharan Africa.
View More UCU, Makerere win sh3.3bn project for migration and mobility e-learningEducation Lecturer Attributes UK Contributor and UCU for Success
Coming from a humble background with a peasant father, Patience Akampurira had no hope of joining a university after completing A’ level in 1998. It was like a dream and yet an answered prayer when her father, a very committed Christian and a canon in the Church of Uganda heard about Uganda Christian University (UCU) and how it offered other programs apart from theology. Her father quickly sent for the application forms, and she was offered an opportunity to study for a Bachelor of Arts concurrent with a Diploma in Education (BAED).
View More Education Lecturer Attributes UK Contributor and UCU for SuccessMy passion for film gave me a headstarter after campus
Little did I know that my career path was being precast at the time with the various films that I grew to appreciate over the course of my school years and later adult life.
View More My passion for film gave me a headstarter after campusFailure should never define your child’s destiny
We have all failed in life at some point, but we have not been worthless. We are still alive and moving forward with greatness in one area or another. To some, failure came as a learning experience, and they got over it with more courage and focus. Other people never believed they could try again, and all their hope was shattered. That is also part of life. Life has never been straight.
View More Failure should never define your child’s destinyUganda’s Save the Mother champions safe motherhood
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View More Uganda’s Save the Mother champions safe motherhoodFormer UCU student tops Uganda bar examinations
Ordinarily, when a student studies Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics at A’level in Uganda, chances are they will opt to pursue a course in medicine at university. That was not the case with Emmanuel Okia. He says even before he completed A’level, he knew his heart was elsewhere.
View More Former UCU student tops Uganda bar examinationsAdvocates call for protection of journalists
However, according to Reporters Without Borders’ 2022 global press freedom survey, Uganda’s press freedom score has continued to deteriorate, with the country ranking 132 out of 180.
View More Advocates call for protection of journalistsUCU student-developed ‘blue light’ designed to improve road safety
A personal, grim reality inspired Uganda Christian University (UCU) student, Anei Agany Mabui, to invent a robot to curb road crashes.
View More UCU student-developed ‘blue light’ designed to improve road safety