New courses at Arua campus

By Justin Emedot, :: 10-10-2011

Director Christopher Agatre

UCU Arua campus will introduce six new programmes starting January 2012 to increase the variety of courses for the population around the area.
The courses include postgraduate diplomas in Public Administration and Management, and Education while certificates programmes include Social Work and Social Administration, Business Administration, Public Administration and Management and Development Studies. They will all be done in two semesters each.


“The postgraduate courses will favour people working around this region, who would want to further their studies, while the certificate courses will be for a growing number of students that miss out on diploma and degree courses,” says the Arua campus director, Christopher Yikki Agatre.
The courses that have already been approved by the university senate will add to the existing degree and certificate courses.
“Currently have SWASA, Development Studies, Business Administration, Arts in Education, Public Administration and Management. We are working hard to have even two more, Bachelors of Economics and Management and Procurement and Logistics Management,” the Director adds.
These are expected to kick off in September 2012. They have to get approval from the senate after meeting some requirements that include highly qualified people who will lecture.
In addition, the campus has two certificate programmes in tailoring and catering, designed to suit the girls from the community who drop out of school. The girls are trained for two years before being commissioned. The next commissioning for the girls at the tailoring school will be on the 25 November, and over 20 girls are expected to be passed.
UCU Arua campus was first home of a rural trade school founded in 1959 by Africa Inland Mission (AIM), and later in 1978, a full ordination course started where students came for residential training.
In 2003, St. Paul’s Theological College was re-born as a university regional study centre of UCU. The campus now offers teaching at day time at the main campus in Ringili and evening programme at Mvara mission for over 400 students on session.
Because of its location, the campus admits students from the West Nile region, including some from the neighbouring countries of Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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