<em>What A Week!</em> By Joan Mugenzi
Sep 28, 2003
THERE is nothing like simply talking about university education. A university must offer quality as Gulu University has learnt.
Higher education gains favour
THERE is nothing like simply talking about university education. A university must offer quality as Gulu University has learnt. The newly established university has embarked on an international recruitment drive for professors and senior lecturers.
The vice chancellor, Dr. Nyeko Pen-Mogi, who recently returned from a working visit to the US, said he signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Illinois in an effort towards staff development.
Students are finally back for their final term this academic year. This time, though, the school term started on a low key, with an unusually fewer number of children reporting back. The queues at the banks were also not as long.
This probably follows president Museveni’s directive that pupils in Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools should not pay any extra fees.
Now, what is it about the Makerere University Business School (MUBS)?
The university has not yet received funds for state-sponsored students and has therefore took a stand that it will not re-open until Government releases the funds. Wasswa Balunywa, MUBS principal, said there had not been any positive communication from government about the money amounting to sh1.3bn.
The World Bank has pledged to support tertiary education in Africa, in a major shift in policy, which previously emphasised UPE.
Prof. Peter Materu, the bank’s lead education specialist, said higher education should no longer be treated as a luxury, but as central to the economic development of a country.
He was in Accra ahead of the regional conference on higher education there.
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THERE is nothing like simply talking about university education. A university must offer quality as Gulu University has learnt. The newly established university has embarked on an international recruitment drive for professors and senior lecturers.
The vice chancellor, Dr. Nyeko Pen-Mogi, who recently returned from a working visit to the US, said he signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Illinois in an effort towards staff development.
Students are finally back for their final term this academic year. This time, though, the school term started on a low key, with an unusually fewer number of children reporting back. The queues at the banks were also not as long.
This probably follows president Museveni’s directive that pupils in Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools should not pay any extra fees.
Now, what is it about the Makerere University Business School (MUBS)?
The university has not yet received funds for state-sponsored students and has therefore took a stand that it will not re-open until Government releases the funds. Wasswa Balunywa, MUBS principal, said there had not been any positive communication from government about the money amounting to sh1.3bn.
The World Bank has pledged to support tertiary education in Africa, in a major shift in policy, which previously emphasised UPE.
Prof. Peter Materu, the bank’s lead education specialist, said higher education should no longer be treated as a luxury, but as central to the economic development of a country.
He was in Accra ahead of the regional conference on higher education there.
Ends