UGANDA has received requests from the US and China to access the education market, reports Milton Olupot.

The US has asked Uganda to recognise qualifications of US-trained lawyers to practice in Uganda without going through the Law Development Centre, which is a prerequisite for practicing law in Uganda. China on the other hand, wants to recruit Ugandan teachers to teach the English language.

Muhammad K. Mayanja (left), the director of planning and development at Makerere University, said this while discussing a paper on general agreement on trade in services and higher education in Africa, at the Association of African Universities Workshop in Ghana last week.

Law is regarded as an undergraduate degree in Uganda and the Makerere graduates have to do a post-graduate diploma in legal practice before they are allowed to practice.

In US, legal practice is taken as a post-graduate professional course, which does not require the postgraduate diploma.