120 Kyambogo University lecturers face replacement
Jun 25, 2008
ABOUT 120 lecturers of Kyambogo University are to be redeployed to lower institutions of learning because they do not have the required qualifications.
By Fortunate Ahimbisibwe
and Angella Asiimire
ABOUT 120 lecturers of Kyambogo University are to be redeployed to lower institutions of learning because they do not have the required qualifications.
The report of the validation exercise, which the public service ministry released earlier this month, also recommended that over 15 lecturers, who had reached the retirement age, should be laid off, a source in the education ministry told The New Vision.
The public service minister, Henry Muganwa Kajura, said many former lecturers of the Uganda Polytechnic Kyambogo and the Institute of Teacher Education Kyambogo had been integrated into the university. It was a merger of the two institutions above and the Uganda National Institute of Special Education.
Kyambogo University was established by the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act 2001.
“The validation exercise discovered that many lecturers did not meet the requirements for teaching in a university.
“Those who do not qualify will be replaced and the Education Service Commission will deploy them in other institutions,†said Kajura.
There are about 425 lecturers at the public university, meaning that about 28% of them do not have the necessary academic papers.
The committee found out that the university did not have professors, Kajura explained, adding that the report had been submitted to the education ministry for appropriate action.
“In some departments, we found that all the teachers were integrated into the system as university lecturers after the merger.
“That is why there were many cases of unqualified people,†he said.
Kajura cited the community disability studies department as the most affected.
A source also alleged that all the lecturers at the former National Institute of Special Education were promoted to lecturers after the merger although they did not have qualifications.
The institute was transformed into the faculty of special needs and rehabilitation.
The University’s public relations officer, James Bulenzibuto, last week said the university council would discuss the recommendations in the report before taking any form of action.
According to the council’s recommendations of 2004, a lecturer should have a doctorate and at least a two-year teaching experience.
and Angella Asiimire
ABOUT 120 lecturers of Kyambogo University are to be redeployed to lower institutions of learning because they do not have the required qualifications.
The report of the validation exercise, which the public service ministry released earlier this month, also recommended that over 15 lecturers, who had reached the retirement age, should be laid off, a source in the education ministry told The New Vision.
The public service minister, Henry Muganwa Kajura, said many former lecturers of the Uganda Polytechnic Kyambogo and the Institute of Teacher Education Kyambogo had been integrated into the university. It was a merger of the two institutions above and the Uganda National Institute of Special Education.
Kyambogo University was established by the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act 2001.
“The validation exercise discovered that many lecturers did not meet the requirements for teaching in a university.
“Those who do not qualify will be replaced and the Education Service Commission will deploy them in other institutions,†said Kajura.
There are about 425 lecturers at the public university, meaning that about 28% of them do not have the necessary academic papers.
The committee found out that the university did not have professors, Kajura explained, adding that the report had been submitted to the education ministry for appropriate action.
“In some departments, we found that all the teachers were integrated into the system as university lecturers after the merger.
“That is why there were many cases of unqualified people,†he said.
Kajura cited the community disability studies department as the most affected.
A source also alleged that all the lecturers at the former National Institute of Special Education were promoted to lecturers after the merger although they did not have qualifications.
The institute was transformed into the faculty of special needs and rehabilitation.
The University’s public relations officer, James Bulenzibuto, last week said the university council would discuss the recommendations in the report before taking any form of action.
According to the council’s recommendations of 2004, a lecturer should have a doctorate and at least a two-year teaching experience.