Mature Age Entry:

To be admitted under the Mature Age Entry scheme, a candidate must have passed the mature Age Entry Examinations, one is an Aptitude paper done by all and then another one for the two content subjects you wish to offer at the University and he must have spent at least three years outside school. Those subjects must be in either Arts or Sciences.

Diploma Holders:

A candidate shall be admitted to the B.A with Education Degree or to the B.Sc with Education Degree programmes if he /she possess a non Education Diploma or its equivalent from a recognized institution.

Degree and Post graduate Qualifications:
A candidate shall be admitted to the B.A with Education Degree or to the B.Sc with Education Degree programmes if he /she possess either a:

Admission of Postgraduate Studies is determined by vetting and approval before they can qualify for provisional admission of up to one year.

All completed application forms must be accompanied by relevant copies of certificates and certified copies of academic transcripts and reference letters.

Forms which are not completed properly cause delays in the processing of applications.

Supervision

Every candidate who undertakes research is assigned a supervisor and a co-supervisor who are specialists in the candidates’ field of study. An applicant may, if one wishes, indicate the name of the person to supervise a research project. Nevertheless, the authority for the appointment of supervisors rests with the Senate. The supervisor may be changed with the permission of Senate.

Progress Reports

Every candidate is required to submit (through a supervisor) reports on progress twice a year.
This is done on a special progress report form which the department will supply. Failure to fulfill this requirement may lead to discontinuation.

Extension of Registration

If a candidate realizes that he/she cannot complete his/her work within the time allowed, it is his/her duty to take the initiative to apply for extension of the registration.

If the registration apses, the candidate will be deregistered.

Registration is normally sought after 30th September of the candidate’s 1st year of registration for Postgraduate Diploma students;

2nd year of registration in the case of Masters degree students and after 3 years for Ph.D. full time students and M.M.Ed. Students Extension of registration is charged as follows for up to:-

Registration with other Faculties.

The B.A. with Education students must also register for the courses which they pursue in either the Faculty of Arts or in the Faculty of Social Sciences if they are Day students.

The Evening students register only with the Dean’s Office of the School of Education after registering centrally because they carry on their studies entirely in the School of Education.

The B.SC. with Education students must also register for the courses which they pursue in the Faculty of Science.

Registration periods are published by the Academic Registrar’s Department and by the Deans of the School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Registration has got a time limit and is clearly shown by the Department of the Academic Registrar and by the offices of the above respective Faculties and School of Education.

Time-Tables

The School of Education has two categories of students:

Evening education students pursue all their lectures in the School of Education. Therefore there is only one time-table for these Evening students and it is issued by the School of Education.

Adding or Dropping Courses
A student may add or drop a course during the Course Add/Drop period by the end of the second week of the semester as specified in the academic year calendar. Students do this by obtaining the Course Add/Drop Form from the Department of the Academic Registrar. The adding or dropping of courses is not official until all applicable tuition fees have been paid to the Bursar’s Department and the completed Add/Drop Form has been received in the Office of the Dean of Education.

A registration fee of Ug shs 5,000/= is levied for each course added. There is no fee for dropping a course.

Withdrawing from Courses

A student may withdraw from one or more courses after the time of Add/Drop period that is after two weeks from the commencement of a semester.

A student my drop a course or courses before half of the course is completed with the approval of the course instructor provided that the student has the minimum required core courses.

Withdrawing from the School of Education

First year Education students who wish to withdraw from the School of Education and join other Faculties must do so before the end of the second week of the first semester by filling a form from the Academic Registrar’s Department. This wish to withdraw from the School of Education shall be only official when permission has been granted by the Academic Registrar who notifies the Dean of the School of Education

A student who ceases to attend lectures without officially withdrawing is subject to a grade of failure (‘F”) for all courses for which he/she is registered.
A student who officially or unofficially withdraws from the University owing a debt to the University shall not be allowed to re-enroll until that debt has been paid in frill and shall not be issued with his/her certificate and transcript.

The Degree Certificates and Transcripts

On completion of the programme, a student is issued with a Degree Certificate and a Transcript by the Academic Registrar’s Department at a fee. All these last papers are issued after verifying that a student has been registering centrally with the Academic Registrar semester per semester, and the record of marks scored in each semester has been sent to the Department of the Academic Registrar by the School of Education and that he/she owes no debt to the University.