Makerere University has setup a special committee to study the Visitation Committee’s report that raised several management and policy issues about the university.
The report was presented to President Yoweri Museveni, who is also the visitor of the university on December 29.
Lecturers at Makerere University say an inquiry into its affairs by the visitation committee led by the late Prof Abel Rwendeire did not focus on its long-standing problems, some of which are responsible for yearly strikes at the institution.
KIRUHURA - The Makerere University visitation committee has recommended increasing of tuition fees, in a report submitted to President Yoweri Museveni.
The report by the Makerere University Visitation Committee has recommended radical measures in the way the university is run including limiting Uganda’s oldest and most prominent public university to only offering science courses at degree level and graduate degrees (master’s degrees and PhDs).
The 2016 Visitation Committee report has recommended turning Makerere University into mainly a graduate institution but also focusing on Science courses at undergraduate level. The report was handed over to Presiden
KIRUHURA - The Makerere University visitation committee has recommended increasing of tuition fees, in a report submitted to President Yoweri Museveni.
The committee also wants the oldest public university in Uganda turned into a sole university. In its report, it also recommends that the current Government and State House scholarships are phased out and consolidated into the existing loan scheme.
The recommendations are contained in a report that was presented to the President by the interim committee chairperson, Lady Justice Ketrah Katunguka.
