Earlier this year in May, the Makerere University administration recommended and approved that in future, students be issued with original and certified copies of transcripts at the same time upon graduation to avoid inconveniences and delays to students as they hit the job market.
As a result of that, students who are set to graduate next year will leave the Freedom Square armed with their transcripts and set to authoritatively compete for jobs with their counterparts from other universities, according to the Vice Chancellor of the institution Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe.
Campus Bee has learned that the University Senate awaits approval of marks from individual colleges before embarking on the process of making the transcripts. This marks approval process is expected to be completed before the end of November.
“Once the final results from colleges have been submitted, Senate will clear them and printing of transcripts will commence immediately,” Prof Nawangwe said before adding that the same graduands will be free to pick their transcripts before graduation come January next year.
The vice chancellor believes that giving graduates their original transcripts on graduation day is what the institution ought to do as a ‘world-class’ university and that the development is aimed at avoiding inconveniences to students after graduation. The administration also believes the development will reduce on the rampant extortion cases among the transcripts staff.
The university administration also acknowledged that for the success of this development, students will have to pay a small fee that is yet to be established which will cater for the service.
Original and certified copies of the transcript are a vital requirement for one to get a job today as well those who desire to pursue more studies. At Makerere, issuance of transcripts is done after students have cleared in all the necessary offices, including among others the accounts office, the guild office and the University hospital.
The university is set to organise her 69th graduation ceremony in the second week of January 2019 and they expect to graduate about 13,000 students including students from Nakawa based Makerere University Business School (MUBS).
