Embrace Vocational Education, Premier Tells Universities

Aug 27, 2002

PREMIER Apollo Nsibambi has challenged universities and other institutions in East Africa to embrace vocational education and applied research to ensure economic and social progress particularly for the poor and disadvantaged, writes <b>Abubaker Mukose.</

PREMIER Apollo Nsibambi has challenged universities and other institutions in East Africa to embrace vocational education and applied research to ensure economic and social progress particularly for the poor and disadvantaged, writes Abubaker Mukose.“We must do more to give more access to the poor and disadvantaged to enable them be part of the progress of growth and renaissance in East Africa,” Nsibambi said. Nsibambi said this on Friday in speech read by the minister in-charge of his office, Prof. Mondo Kagonyera at the opening of the East African Community (EAC) meeting of the Sectoral Council on Legal and Judicial Affairs at Jinja Nile Resort hotel.He explained that universities need to drive the public and regional policies more as their approaches are time-tested and form the basis for informed engagement by the public and private sectors. “It is my hope that the syllabi in universities will be contemporary and flexible,” he said. Ends

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