Universities to introduce entrepreneurship
Mar 05, 2010
UNIVERSITIES and other tertiary institutions should introduce entrepreneurship components in their programmes, the Makerere University chancellor, Prof Mondo Kagonyera, has said.
By Taddeo Bwambale
UNIVERSITIES and other tertiary institutions should introduce entrepreneurship components in their programmes, the Makerere University chancellor, Prof Mondo Kagonyera, has said.
He explained that entrepreneurship would teach students how to create jobs.
Kagonyera said liberal programmes would help graduates earn a living in case they fail to get formal employment.
He also urged the Government and the private sector to support the best performing graduands by offering them scholarships or decent employment.
“I met a woman who graduated with a first class degree last year but she has been jobless since then. Uganda is the only country where graduands who get first class degrees go without jobs,†he said.
Kagonyera was speaking at Kampala University’s 7th graduation ceremony at Gaba in Kampala on Thursday.
He warned institutions against discriminating people of other races, saying some of them are more patriotic than the darkest people in the country.
Kampala University vice- chancellor, Prof Badru Kateregga, announced that the university had introduced online programmes for students on the distance learning and mass communication programmes.
He said the measures would increase efficiency in service delivery.
Kateregga also disclosed that the university would start issuing transcripts to graduands on the day of graduation.
“What has taken Makerere University 80 years to achieve has only taken us seven years,†Kateregga said about the system.
The university is the third to announce the system this year, after Makerere and Kyambogo.
However, Kagonyera, who was chief guest, advised the university to strive for international excellence, instead of comparing itself to Makerere.
UNIVERSITIES and other tertiary institutions should introduce entrepreneurship components in their programmes, the Makerere University chancellor, Prof Mondo Kagonyera, has said.
He explained that entrepreneurship would teach students how to create jobs.
Kagonyera said liberal programmes would help graduates earn a living in case they fail to get formal employment.
He also urged the Government and the private sector to support the best performing graduands by offering them scholarships or decent employment.
“I met a woman who graduated with a first class degree last year but she has been jobless since then. Uganda is the only country where graduands who get first class degrees go without jobs,†he said.
Kagonyera was speaking at Kampala University’s 7th graduation ceremony at Gaba in Kampala on Thursday.
He warned institutions against discriminating people of other races, saying some of them are more patriotic than the darkest people in the country.
Kampala University vice- chancellor, Prof Badru Kateregga, announced that the university had introduced online programmes for students on the distance learning and mass communication programmes.
He said the measures would increase efficiency in service delivery.
Kateregga also disclosed that the university would start issuing transcripts to graduands on the day of graduation.
“What has taken Makerere University 80 years to achieve has only taken us seven years,†Kateregga said about the system.
The university is the third to announce the system this year, after Makerere and Kyambogo.
However, Kagonyera, who was chief guest, advised the university to strive for international excellence, instead of comparing itself to Makerere.