The path to quality.
UCU has adopted the Inter-University Council of East Africa's Self Assessment tool of evaluating academic programmes.
Under this system, each institution carries out a comprehensive assessment of its programmes, but in regards to set standards that cut across the East African region.

The assessment process, which the University Senate endorsed late last year, was first tested in the Faculty of Business and Administration.
"We have already piloted this assessment tool with BBA. Our areas of concern were quality of admitted students; instructional methods as well as educational infrastructures available and the quality of our graduates," said, Vincent Kisenyi, Associate Dean at the Faculty of Business and Administration.
"It was an exciting experience. We made a lot of discoveries. We realised our strengths and areas of weaknesses and are ready to extend to other programmes within the faculty," he added.
Given their success, the university has designed a three year rota for Self Assessment and Curriculum Review to be completed by each faculty, one at a time.
The Faculty of Business and Administration will take the first shift, (January-June 2010); Bishop Tucker School of Divinity and Theology, (July - December 2010); Education, (January - June 2011); Law, (July - December 2011); Science and Technology, (January - June 2012); and Social Science, (July - December 2012).
In an earlier interview, the General Secretary, UCU Quality Assurance Committee, Douglas Fountain said the adoption of this assessment tool is one of their latest interventions to ensure quality of academic standards in the university.
"We are taking Quality Assurance seriously and are grateful the senate committed UCU to this comprehensive evaluation of its faculty programmes. Self Assessment is just one aspect of promoting quality and we also have other measures in place" he said.
"Our target is to produce graduates who are well prepared for thoughtful and productive lives of service in line with the university's mission," Fountain added.
He identified other quality assurance measures as Staff Peer Review to begin this year as well as revising the previous staff and course evaluation procedures.
The news of university's commitment to ensure quality of academic standards was greeted with joy and optimism by the students' community.
"We are grateful that the administration is concerned about the quality of our academic programmes. We hope that areas of weaknesses will be exposed and corrective measures put in place,"
said Gellian Atim.
"I am happy with the development especially the move to revise the previous staff and course evaluation," concurs Susan Asimwe.