republic of rwanda - Kigali Independent University ULK

9 The teaching staffIn total, in 2011, ULK had 273 lecturers (permanent and part time). The ULK teaching staffstands as follows (see their names and academic grades in the appendix 2): Full Professors : 4 Associate Professors : 5 Senior lecturers : 33 Lecturers : 217 Assistant Lecturers : 14--------Total 27310. CooperationULK entertains cooperation with National and foreign institutions being public or private.There is exchange of lecturers and common tasks at the level of research (OSSREA),symposium and seminars.Cooperation with other foreign universities goes on. Among them we can mention: Universityof Kwazulu Natal, university of Pretoria, Tshwane University of technology, Wits University,Moi University, Makerere University, Kyambogo University, Nkumba University, OpenUniversity of Tanzania, Dar Es Salaam University, Université Catholique de Louvain,University of Ireland, Université de Lyon and some universities of Netherlands. Thatcollaboration is mainly focused on the exchange of information, documentation, supervising ourassistant-lecturers, associate lecturers for their post- graduate (PhD and Masters) programmes.11. EntrepreneurshipOur development plan focuses on the managerial and entrepreneurship training of our students.The latter learn to have a great deal of initiatives and innovation to start small enterprises thanksto micro-finances that are promoted in Rwanda. It is in this connection that ULK has a CarreerAdvisory Centre which provides guidance to students by connecting them to various institutionshaving experience in the domains of their interest.12. FINANCINGTodate, ULK has never benefited from any financial support whatever. It chiefly operatesthanks to the financial contribution of its Founder, to bank credits and modest academic feespaid by students, which vary for Kigali Campus, between 130,000 Frw (±215$ US) and220,000 Frw (± 365$ US) per term or every four months. However, let us observe that theUniversity has benefited from NUFFIC support in line with the NPT project (the Netherlands),namely 11 scholarships, 140 computers sets and 200 books. The Ministry of Education hasgiven 5 560 books to ULK.