MUKONO.
Seeta University, which is slated to officially open in August, has entered a partnership with Teesside University of UK to train and offer scholarships to science students.
According to Mr Ronald Mbago, the University Administrator and Academic Registrar, told Daily Monitor on Monday that the agreement will have the Ugandan students offering a three-year programme, study in Uganda for two years, and complete the final years in the UK.
“Our goal is to put out globally acceptable products that can be easily assimilated in any sector of specialisation they may wish to work with, both at home and abroad,” he said on Monday
The university is to offer bachelor’s degrees and diplomas in nursing science, public health, pharmacy, biochemistry, law, industrial mathematics, software engineering, computer science, information technology and other disciplines.
The Deputy Vice Chancellor, Administration and Finance, Dr. Maurice Tamale, said some of the modalities under this arrangement will include, but not be limited to, students undertaking online studies initially and undertaking practical work in the UK.
‘The exchange programme will give Ugandan students exposure opportunities and hands-on practical skills that will make them employable globally.
Dr. Lawrence Nyazi, the director of the Doctoral Programme at Seeta University, noted that the partnership programme will give hope for training Ugandan students with international expertise, and in effect, making them internationally acceptable and employable.
Uganda’s health workers will have their standards stepped up, which will consequently improve health service delivery.
The Deputy Director of Teesside University, Jessica Watson, said her university has paid special consideration to practical work, teaching space, and other requirements, noting that students work through a vast programme organised from beginning to end.
She said that for the last fifteen years, efforts including the provision of state–of–the–art buildings and facilities to accommodate a large number of students have been made. She also pointed out that modalities for students to pay tuition in instalments in a year have been put in place.
Drawing of partnership modalities was finalised in May 2025 at Seeta University campus in Mbalala Nama sub-county, Mukono district, with a memorandum to that effect finalised between the university’s council and Watson, the Deputy Director for International Development at Teesside University.
Watson has introduced and established a programme that will see Ugandan students study partly in Uganda and complete the final part of their courses at Teesside University.