The executive director of Cavendish University Uganda David Mutabanura has backed competency-based education, saying the learning approach equips students with practical skills to solve real-life problems and prepares them for employment and self-reliance. Mutabanura made the remarks during the inaugural inter-school project competition hosted at the university’s campus in Kampala, where he commended secondary schools…
The Industrial Court has ruled that Cavendish University was right to dismiss a senior lecturer, Dr Fredrick Kiwuwa Lugya, after discovering that he held two full-time jobs, at Cavendish and Makerere University. Cavendish University is a private university based in Nsambya, Kampala. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in law, business, health sciences, information technology…
Letia Shamil Atabua was a student at Cavendish University in Uganda and often complained about being treated unfairly by some lecturers. In one semester, he was given four retakes out of six course units. So he started complaining and insisting loudly that he needed to see his examination papers for the course units he retook….
Cavendish University says it will continue to honour Benjamin Mkapa, the former president of Tanzania and former chancellor of the university, who died five years ago. Mkapa served as Tanzania’s president from 1995 to 2005 and was a renowned politician, diplomat and nationalist who loved his country and the African continent. Every year, the university…
