Uganda Petroleum Institute Kigumba (UPIK) is an Accredited Center for International Vocational Qualifications (IVQs) Training in Oil and Gas. The Institute is an Approved Centre for City & Guilds and Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB). UPIK will soon become Africa's first accredited Oil and Gas Training Center by Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organization (OPITO), the world's most highly ranked Authority in Oil and Gas Training. Established by the Statutory Instrument No.31 of 2011, entitled, "The Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions (Establishment of Uganda Petroleum Institute — Kigumba), UPIK is a Government Tertiary Institution under the Ministry of Education and Sports.
Working in Partnership with the Worldbank and IFP France, UPIK recently developed highly competitive, internationally adapted, and recognised Competency-Based Training Programm for Petroleum Operations and Maintenance Programmes.
The Office of the Academic Registrar now invites all interested applicants; Ugandans, East African nationals and international candidates for the February 2021 intake.
The Government of Uganda has offered an 80% subside on 5 programmes for the first intake of 40 qualifying Ugandan nationals per Programme.
Eligible Candidates for the International Vocational Qualification Programmes should have: Prior Learning or industrial experience
Applications can be done online at www.upik-ac-ug/apply
Hard Copy application forms can be obtained from the Academic Registrar's office, OR downloaded from on the Institute website and returned after payment of a non-refundable application fee of UGX 55,000 (including Bank Charges) to Uganda Petroleum Institute Kigumba Stanbic Bank, Account No. 9030011633454 Kigumba Branch
Note: Online applications will only be considered upon upload of the proof of payment of the application fee. Fully completed application forms will NOT be received later than 5:00 pm on Friday, 29th January 2021.
For More Information about the courses, click here http://www.education.go.ug/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ADVERT-UPIK-compressed_reduce-1.pdf
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