Makerere yet to rule on MUBS courses
May 31, 2010
MAKERERE University Senate is yet to decide on the business courses recently recommended for scrapping.
By Ayiga Ondoga
and Francis Kagolo
MAKERERE University Senate is yet to decide on the business courses recently recommended for scrapping.
the vice-chancellor, Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba, yesterday explained that the senate had not yet effected the recommendation of the academic programmes restructuring committee on the courses offered by Makerere University Business School (MUBS).
He also refuted the claims that the university had taken on courses offered at MUBS.
“We are going to set up another committee of business experts to scrutinise MUBS courses,†Baryamureeba told a press conference at the university main building yesterday.
He stressed that the university senate, not the MUBS administration, was responsible for approving the courses offered at MUBS.
He was responding to a letter written by MUBS students, opposing the recommendation to phase out some academic programmes and merging others into existing ones.
The students wrote to Baryamureeba objecting the decision to merge courses with either bachelor of business administration or bachelor of commerce programmes.
In the letter, read to the press over the weekend, students from the Nakawa-based campus accused the restructuring committee of being biased since no representative from MUBS sits on it.
The May 19 letter was copied to the higher education minister, the Speaker of Parliament, the MUBS principal and the chairman of the MUBS alumni.
Student representatives, including Christopher Mpalanyi, Augustine Tumwebaze and Sam Odongo, also blamed the phasing out of the courses on the differences between the administrations of Makerere University and MUBS.
They warned that phasing out the courses will affect the future of MUBS.
At a press conference held at the MUBS Bugolobi Annex, the MUBS principal, Prof. Wasswa Balunywa, said: “If Makerere University blocks us from running these programmes, we shall have no choice but to admit students directly. For now, however, we are still offering Makerere degrees.â€
He added that MUBS does not agree with merging its programmes, saying they respond to specific aspects of human resource needs in the business and management market.
and Francis Kagolo
MAKERERE University Senate is yet to decide on the business courses recently recommended for scrapping.
the vice-chancellor, Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba, yesterday explained that the senate had not yet effected the recommendation of the academic programmes restructuring committee on the courses offered by Makerere University Business School (MUBS).
He also refuted the claims that the university had taken on courses offered at MUBS.
“We are going to set up another committee of business experts to scrutinise MUBS courses,†Baryamureeba told a press conference at the university main building yesterday.
He stressed that the university senate, not the MUBS administration, was responsible for approving the courses offered at MUBS.
He was responding to a letter written by MUBS students, opposing the recommendation to phase out some academic programmes and merging others into existing ones.
The students wrote to Baryamureeba objecting the decision to merge courses with either bachelor of business administration or bachelor of commerce programmes.
In the letter, read to the press over the weekend, students from the Nakawa-based campus accused the restructuring committee of being biased since no representative from MUBS sits on it.
The May 19 letter was copied to the higher education minister, the Speaker of Parliament, the MUBS principal and the chairman of the MUBS alumni.
Student representatives, including Christopher Mpalanyi, Augustine Tumwebaze and Sam Odongo, also blamed the phasing out of the courses on the differences between the administrations of Makerere University and MUBS.
They warned that phasing out the courses will affect the future of MUBS.
At a press conference held at the MUBS Bugolobi Annex, the MUBS principal, Prof. Wasswa Balunywa, said: “If Makerere University blocks us from running these programmes, we shall have no choice but to admit students directly. For now, however, we are still offering Makerere degrees.â€
He added that MUBS does not agree with merging its programmes, saying they respond to specific aspects of human resource needs in the business and management market.