{"id":69635,"date":"2023-10-16T07:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T04:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=69635"},"modified":"2023-10-16T07:31:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T04:31:55","slug":"ymca-jinja-campus-to-offer-degree-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/ymca-jinja-campus-to-offer-degree-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"YMCA Jinja campus to offer degree courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Philip Wafula<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The YMCA College of Business Studies in Jinja City will start offering degree courses, authorities<br \/>\nhave said. Ms Roselyne Birungi Ssebaleke, the national executive director of Uganda YMCA, who also serves as the governing council chairperson, said the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) recently recommend- ed this degree-awarding institute for chartering and they are in the final stages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will soon start offering degree programmes here (in Jinja) when the process is complete,\u201d Ms Ssebaleke said last Friday during the institution\u2019s 20th graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the college only awards certificates and diplomas. Once cleared to offer degrees by the NCHE, it will join the YMCA Comprehensive Institute (YCI), which includes the main campus in Wandegeya and Bwambo Campus in Wakiso District. Ms Ssebaleke noted that there has been a rapid increase in the demand for their services, particularly regarding the niche of vocational and technical training, and subsequently,some of their branches and institutes have largely expanded their facilities to accommodate the increased number of students.<\/p>\n<p>She, however, noted that Technical and Vocational Education and Training is very expensive in terms of equipment, which makes the fees charged high and leads to high dropout rates.<\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201cWe request that the government <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">subsidises the training equipment <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">and materials for skills training. <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">There have been attempts to lobby <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">for training equipment from partners. However, the taxes charged to deliver the equipment to Uganda are also very high. We, therefore, request that the government gives consideration on taxes charged on training equipment,\u201dMs Ssebaleke said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">A total of 486 students graduated. <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Of these,351 received certificates and <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">135 were awarded diplomas, com- <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">prising 72 males and 414 females. <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">However, the number was significantly less than 744 who graduated in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Philip Wafula The YMCA College of Business Studies in Jinja City will start offering degree courses, authorities have said. Ms Roselyne Birungi Ssebaleke, the national executive director of Uganda YMCA, who also serves as the governing council chairperson, said the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) recently recommend- ed this degree-awarding institute for chartering and they are in the final stages. \u201cWe will soon start offering degree programmes here (in Jinja) when the process is complete,\u201d Ms Ssebaleke said last Friday during the institution\u2019s 20th graduation ceremony. Currently, the college only awards certificates and diplomas. Once cleared to offer degrees by the NCHE, it will join the YMCA Comprehensive Institute (YCI), which includes the main campus in Wandegeya and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":69636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"F j, Y g:i a","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"3","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2170],"class_list":["post-69635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ymca-jinja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}