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Uganda: War At MUK Over Subjects
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New Vision (Kampala)
8 July 2008
Posted to the web 9 July 2008
Francis Kagolo
Kampala
TWO Makerere University faculties are currently locked in a bitter row over who should teach four courses.
The Arts faculty and the School of Education are fighting over Literature in English Education and languages like Luganda, French and German.
Trouble started in 2005 when the Senate, the top academic organ, permitted the School of Education to take on the subjects formerly taught by Arts.
The move, argued Dr. Ssebunga Masembe, the school of education dean, emanated from the fact that English was being badly done at secondary schools and that students joined universities and other tertiary institutions with very command of the language.
Since the school took on the courses on a pilot project, two groups of students have been trained in the languages and literature.
However, the faculty of Arts was not amused.
"The decision by Senate to allow the School of Education to pilot literature and the languages caused significant discomfort in the faculty of Arts," Dr. Abasi Kiyimba, the deputy dean, said in a June 16 letter to the academic registrar.
He alleged that the education school did not have sufficient instruction materials and lacked experienced lecturers.
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"The smaller group (of students) that comes to Arts therefore enjoys the benefits of more specialised teachers, while the majority (in the education school) is taught by the less specialised," he said.
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