Kyambogo staff to be screened
Apr 27, 2008
AS part of the validation exercise, Kyambogo University will tomorrow start screening its staff.
By Conan Businge and Patrick Opio
AS part of the validation exercise, Kyambogo University will tomorrow start screening its staff.
According to an April 23 circular signed by the university secretary, Edward Kasolo-Kimuli, the academic staff will be the first to be scrutinised.
Their academic papers, letters of integration, appointment and identity cards will be examined.
The exercise, Kasolo-Kimuli said, will end on May 5. The validation exercise followed the University Council’s decision to implement the ad-hoc committee’s report, which recommended a new salary scale for the staff.
According to Brewer Abaliwano, the chairman of the University Council, the new salary structure is expected to end unrest over salaries and the institution would be opened next month.
The report recommended a salary increment of between sh100,000 to sh300,000.
The committee recommended that the grading of jobs should be streamlined to facilitate career development. “To enhance transparency and accountability, full-time employees of the university should be paid through the computerised payroll.â€
“Staff who have attained the mandatory retirement age should be retired and those whose contacts expired should be laid off.â€
The committee added: “Temporary, casual and part-time appointments for non-teaching staff should be discontinued to cut down costs.â€
Salary guidelines for visiting lecturers and the criteria for entitlement to fuel and housing should be developed, said the committee, which was chaired by M.S. Ssendyona, an assistant commissioner in the Ministry of Public Service.
The committee was created by the University Council in February to study the lecturers’ salary grievances.
This was after the lecturers laid down their tools, prompting students to also protest.
Eventually, the university was closed.
AS part of the validation exercise, Kyambogo University will tomorrow start screening its staff.
According to an April 23 circular signed by the university secretary, Edward Kasolo-Kimuli, the academic staff will be the first to be scrutinised.
Their academic papers, letters of integration, appointment and identity cards will be examined.
The exercise, Kasolo-Kimuli said, will end on May 5. The validation exercise followed the University Council’s decision to implement the ad-hoc committee’s report, which recommended a new salary scale for the staff.
According to Brewer Abaliwano, the chairman of the University Council, the new salary structure is expected to end unrest over salaries and the institution would be opened next month.
The report recommended a salary increment of between sh100,000 to sh300,000.
The committee recommended that the grading of jobs should be streamlined to facilitate career development. “To enhance transparency and accountability, full-time employees of the university should be paid through the computerised payroll.â€
“Staff who have attained the mandatory retirement age should be retired and those whose contacts expired should be laid off.â€
The committee added: “Temporary, casual and part-time appointments for non-teaching staff should be discontinued to cut down costs.â€
Salary guidelines for visiting lecturers and the criteria for entitlement to fuel and housing should be developed, said the committee, which was chaired by M.S. Ssendyona, an assistant commissioner in the Ministry of Public Service.
The committee was created by the University Council in February to study the lecturers’ salary grievances.
This was after the lecturers laid down their tools, prompting students to also protest.
Eventually, the university was closed.