A total of 3500 students are slated to graduate during Uganda Management Institute’s virtual graduation ceremony today, Campus Bee has learnt.
The ceremony, which will be presided over by the Vice President Edward Sekandi as the chief guest will only be attended by the best students from each class and the rest will attend virtually, according to Jeff Nsamba, the UMI senior marketing officer.
Nsamba added that a few invited guests will attend today’s function at the institute where only 70 people will attend the function physically and the rest will attend their graduation on social platforms and a few television stations that will air it live.
According to Nsamba, the graduands and other invited guest will grace the ceremony while observing guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health most especially social distancing.
UMI joins other universities that have held virtual/scientific graduation ceremonies following the outbreak of COVID-19. It should be recalled that Kampala International University held their 22nd graduation ceremony virtually last weekend. Cavendish University was the first university to pull off the scientific graduation ceremony.
All universities in Uganda were forced to close in March 2020 in bid to slow the spread of COVID-19 and the Education Ministry has since advised them to adopt E-learning.
