UCU at higher education exhibition

By Justin D Emedot, :: 10-10-2011

Education minister Jessica AlupoUganda Christian University on 23rd September participated in the fifth annual National Council for Higher Education exhibition, with all its seven faculties present at the three-day event at the UMA Showgrounds Lugogo in Kampala.
With the theme ‘Higher Education and Job Creation’, the free exhibition was meant to show the public what universities and other tertiary institutions do to empower their graduates to create jobs.
“Our students, mainly from the faculties of Business and Administration and Science and Technology showcased the skills they acquired while at UCU that have enabled them to create jobs,” says the UCU Assistant Public Relations Officer, Prim K. Tumuramye, who coordinated the UCU presentation.
During her speech at the closing ceremony, the Education and Sports Minister, Ms Jessica Alupo, thanked the NCHE for carrying out the fifth exhibition. She said it was an avenue for the institutions to showcase their programmes and latest innovations. 
She noted that since 1986, universities in the country had increased from one university to five public universities and 27 private universities currently, something she credits the current government for. She urged the graduates to use the skills they got at school to create jobs.
Dorothy Namazzi Luswata, a BIFA student expecting to graduate, was among the students who exhibited their products. Namazzi, who majored in fashion and interior design, is currently engaged in contracts with clients who hire her to design for them. She uses fabrics to make bedcovers, curtains and cushions.
All seven faculties from UCU had a stall each where they not only showed the public that they exist, but what they do.
“As members from the law faculty, we are here to show the public what we do. And as a way of marketing the faculty, we have materials we are giving out and selling lioke books, brochures, stickers, and T-shirts,” Bazira Antony, of LLB 3.
This year’s theme is almost similar to the university’s theme of ‘a complete education for a complete person.’
The National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) is a statutory agency, a watchdog for quality and relevant higher education established under "The Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act 2001."
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