Education Sector Strategic Plan 2004-2015 - Planipolis

Work Plan 200415-2006/7: Higher education
Intervention Activities Manager
Objective 1. An education system relevant to Uganda's national development goals
1.3. Expanded and equitable participation in a coordinated, flexible, and diversified tertiary system
1.3.1. Restructure the tertiary system to improve quality, coherence, and flexibility.
Establish a course credit system that allows
student mobility within and among institutions. Design an acceptable uniform credit hour system weighed according to level of institution an
pilot easy learning methodologies.
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t3.2. Develop facilities to cope with rapidly increasing numbers.
Rehabilitate and create more openings in existinc Expand physical and material infrastructures. CHE 2007
universities and training institutions. Recruite more lectures
Establish an open university and a university in
the East.
Transform UTCs to National Polytechnics
Identify the site for a public University in the East.
Appoint a Task Force to kick-start the University.
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1.3.3. Establish a liberalized financing mechanism and diversify the resource base.
Shift from subsidizing universities to subsidizing Develop a scholarship scheme where the students are given money to study in any universit.,CHE 2005
students at public and private institutions. of the choice.
Delink academic and boarding fees, and
subsidize only academic fees.
Pay only tuition fees for students in order to increase enrolment. CHE 2005
Objective 2. Students achieving education goals
2.3. Tertiary graduates prepared to be innovative, creative, and entrepreneurial in the private and public sectors
2.2.3. Reform and improve curricula and instruction in priority disciplines.
Attract and retain academic staff by improving Raise salaries MoES 2007
conditions of service. Recruit staff ESC. Universities 2005
I mprove quality of instruction at training Improve and expand laboratories
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institutions (agriculture, health, etc.).
Improve learning support system
Give highest priority to math, science,
technology, and other subjects critical to
Uganda's national development.
I mprove and expand laboratories and review curricula.
Improve the teaching of Maths and Science.
Build infrastructure for ICT
Review the Curriculum
Hire and train staff
Improve infrastructure
Institutions
MoES Institutions
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2007