UNIVERSITIES IN EAST AFRICA HAVE UNQUALIFIED LECTURERS ! Daily News, Tanzania 10/10/2010
From MARC NKWAME in Arusha, 9th October 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Hits: 247
The Executive Secretary of the Inter-University Council for East Africa, Prof Chacha Nyaigotti-Chacha is worried over the mushrooming of universities not corresponding with the available number of qualified lecturers.
A university lecturer must qualify to the top; anybody teaching at higher institute of learning needs to be a PhD holder, but at the moment our universities seem to have just one doctorate lecturer in every 40 dons.
"As a result our colleges keep churning out half-baked graduates," Prof Chacha maintained. The professor expressed this worry in Arusha over the weekend at a press conference held in the threshold of the forthcoming celebrations to mark the 10th Anniversary of the Revitalization of the Inter-University Council for East Africa, to be held in the Ugandan Capital of Kampala between the 19th and 21st October 2010.
Following the dissolution of the University of East Africa and the establishment of the University of Dar es Salaam, Makerere University and the University of Nairobi in 1970, an Inter-University Committee for East Africa was created under the East African Community (EAC), to facilitate collaboration among the three national universities.
"By then there were only three universities in the region. Now the number is staggering. Yet we keep having fewer and fewer trained professors to correspond with the trainers' demand," said Mr Chacha.
The committee functioned very well under the aegis of the Community and after the collapse of the latter body in 1977, in 1980, the three Vice-Chancellors agreed to maintain the committee through signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which led to the birth of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA).
The MoU set out the objectives, functions, membership and governance of the Council. In 1999 the Partner States recognized the Inter-University Council as one of the surviving institutions of the former East African Community (EAC).
It was agreed to establish a corporate body to be known as the Inter-University Council for East Africa. At that time IUCEA was not a legal entity.
Following the revitalization and recruitment of a new set of staff in 2000, the Governing Board embarked on the development of legal instruments to make IUCEA a legal body corporate.
In 2002 the protocol for the establishment of the IUCEA was signed by the three partner States with the aim of harmonizing and providing a legal framework within which to undertake activities of the IUCEA.
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