By Martin T. Maate
Days after unending chaos, the University Council of Makerere, chaired by Mrs Lorna Magara, held an emergency meeting with student leaders on Tuesday at the main campus and made a number of resolutions.
The Council decided that the 15% fees adjustment shall continue to be applied on tuition fees for the next three years among other resolutions. Council revised the policy by halting the increment on functional fees and maintained it at the rate of the 2019/2020 cohort.
The university council in July 2018 approved the policy that sanctioned a 15 percent increment on both tuition and functional fees, over the next five years. Since October 22nd, students have been protesting the policy on grounds that it was unfair and making education services expensive at Uganda’s oldest public university.
Justifying the fees adjustments, the university council noted that it was conscious of the financial requirements to run the university alongside the economic circumstances in the country. The council also said Makerere had not increased fees for 13 years before the current fees structure was passed.
The university council is the supreme governing body of the university and was established by the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act.
