Makerere Vice Chancellor-elect, Prof Barnabas Nawangwe while appearing on KFM’ Hot Seat Monday evening assured listeners that Makerere is a class apart and can not be compared to any Ugandan university. He said that with its research, and being second in Africa, it will take any other Ugandan university over 100 years to reach the level of the ivory tower.
Prof Nawangwe boasted that the only University that can be compared with MAK is the University of Cape Town in South Africa. “Makerere University has world class research projects in almost all areas of academia: in medicine, agriculture, Business and may more,” he revealed.
In his interview, he later pinpointed some of the reasons that lead strikes at the University emphasazing on majorly lack of sufficient and timely funding.
“Strikes are a symptom of under funding of universities,” Prof Nawangwe revealed adding that 95% of professors in other universities are alumni of Makerere University.
He hinted on some of the projects that he will embark on to generate more income for the university- including constructing a five star hotel on the university’s idle land in Kololo.
New Vice Chancellor
Prof B. Nawangwe was last week elected the new Makerere University vice-chancellor.
He garnered 16 votes from the university council against 4 votes in favour of Prof Venansious Baryamureeba and 2 votes for E K Kirumira.
Nawagwe’s term starts on September 1, 2017. Nawange is the outgoing second vice chancellor in charge of finance and administration.
He is full professor of architecture and currently the only full professor of architecture in Africa.
He is an accomplished strategic and transformational leader, who has moved many seemingly impossible tasks to successful conclusion.
He is privileged to have been entrusted with numerous assignments by all the vice chancellors under whom he served at Makerere University.
He has been at the centre of all recent transformational endeavours at Makerere University, including the transformation from a faculty based to a collegiate system as well as administrative re-structuring and business process re-engineering.
To his credit are more than 40 new university policies, including policies on governance, financial management, human resource management, teaching and learning and student affairs.
With more than 28 years of experience as a Leader and Manager in one of Africa’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning at various levels within the University hierarchy, he possess the abilities to mobilise, organise, plan and effectively implement programmes of varying nature and magnitude.
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