‘Kyambogo Should Award Own Degrees’
THE education and sports ministry has asked Parliament to approve the registration of Kyambogo University as a fully-fledged institution that can award its own degrees.
By Richard Mutumba
THE education and sports ministry has asked Parliament to approve the registration of Kyambogo University as a fully-fledged institution that can award its own degrees.
Kyambogo currently awards Makerere University degrees.
The Minister of Education and Sports, Dr. Kiddu Makubuya, delivered the recommendation yesterday to the parliamentary committee on social services at the Parliament.
He was accompanied by education Permanent Secretary F.X. Lubanga, executive director of the Council for Higher Education A.B. Kasozi and the University’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Lutalo-Bbosa.
Makubuya told the committee, chaired by Dorothy Hyuha, that it was high time the university was registered and made a fully-fledged one because it meets the required standards.
Bbosa said the university’s establishment was the result of a merger of the three institutions at Kyambogo hill, which are Institute of Teacher Education Kyambogo (ITEK), Uganda National Institute of Special Education and Uganda Polytechnic Kyambogo.
He said the three institutions currently occupy 630 acres, including the land purchased by ITEK at Namasiga near Seeta, off Jinja Road.
Bbosa told the MPs that according to Section 74 (1) of the Universities and other Tertiary Institutions Act (2001), all these assets would be vested in Kyambogo University.
He said the university would expand and create constituent/affiliated colleges outside Kampala as and when necessary.
He said the university has 10 National Teachers’ Colleges and 47 Primary Teachers’ Colleges as affiliated colleges.
The MPs promised to pursue the matter up to the appropriate level in an effort to get the university formalised.
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THE education and sports ministry has asked Parliament to approve the registration of Kyambogo University as a fully-fledged institution that can award its own degrees.
Kyambogo currently awards Makerere University degrees.
The Minister of Education and Sports, Dr. Kiddu Makubuya, delivered the recommendation yesterday to the parliamentary committee on social services at the Parliament.
He was accompanied by education Permanent Secretary F.X. Lubanga, executive director of the Council for Higher Education A.B. Kasozi and the University’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Lutalo-Bbosa.
Makubuya told the committee, chaired by Dorothy Hyuha, that it was high time the university was registered and made a fully-fledged one because it meets the required standards.
Bbosa said the university’s establishment was the result of a merger of the three institutions at Kyambogo hill, which are Institute of Teacher Education Kyambogo (ITEK), Uganda National Institute of Special Education and Uganda Polytechnic Kyambogo.
He said the three institutions currently occupy 630 acres, including the land purchased by ITEK at Namasiga near Seeta, off Jinja Road.
Bbosa told the MPs that according to Section 74 (1) of the Universities and other Tertiary Institutions Act (2001), all these assets would be vested in Kyambogo University.
He said the university would expand and create constituent/affiliated colleges outside Kampala as and when necessary.
He said the university has 10 National Teachers’ Colleges and 47 Primary Teachers’ Colleges as affiliated colleges.
The MPs promised to pursue the matter up to the appropriate level in an effort to get the university formalised.
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