Victoria University’s Dr. Lawrence Muganga Honored as Uganda’s “Best Innovative Educator”

KAMPALA, UGANDA: Victoria University Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Lawrence Muganga has been recognized as Uganda’s “Best Innovative Educator”. Muganga was honored by the Uganda Journalism Association (UJA) on Tuesday, 3rd May 2022 during the World Press Freedom Day Celebrations held at Hotel Africana in Kampala.

UJA hailed the decorated academician for his enormous contribution in transforming Uganda’s education sector, especially at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

After receiving the accolade, Dr Muganga lauded UJA for recognizing his efforts towards the development of the country’s education sector.
“…sending my heartfelt appreciation to Uganda Journalists Association for honoring me with the Award of Best Innovative Educator. On this World Press Freedom Day, I appreciate the work done by Uganda’s media,” he said.

Dr Muganga further noted that in Uganda, they need to deeply reflect on the new digital era, which now defines the new media.
“This implies that there are more players in the media; journalists and non-journalists, which raises an issue of the quality of journalism, professionalism of journalists and how this may affect the democratic process of the country; an issue I will raise in my address, this evening,” the VC stated.

“We all, appreciate the role of journalists in helping and supporting the growth of democracies, and it is rightly called the fourth Pillar of democracy; the Fourth Estate; the others being the legislature, executive, and judiciary. To accomplish its mandate, the media is expected to disseminate political information, to be used by voters in making informed decisions. The media also helps identify the problems in our society and serves as a medium for deliberation. It (Media) is also expected to serve as watchdogs that we rely on for uncovering mistakes and wrongdoings by those who have power.”

UJA’s recognition of Dr. Lawrence Muganga comes barely a month after the Victoria University boss was awarded an honorary Professor by the academic union of Oxford for promoting the science discipline and the use of technology in education.

Victoria University was also earlier awarded with a certificate of the Academic Union Registrar, top 100 achievements in the excellence of science and education.

Dr. Lawrence Muganga will go down in history as one of the Vice-Chancellors who promoted technology usage in Uganda’s education system, with Victoria University being one of the very first that embraced E-learning.