By Nakakande Shibah
“Higher institutions don’t have enough funds to put up adequate infrastructure facilities to equip teaching facilities , to recruit quality staff. Inevitably ,that can lead to poor out put quality .”
the executive director of National counncil For Higher Education (NCHE) Prof. Mary Okwakol said during the Public Lecture on financing and investment in higher education. This was in commemoration of 20 years of NCHE’s existence.
Prof Mary said universities highly depend on student’s school fees to survive yet they aren’t enough. The education sector needs an adequate financing model to sustain quality Education with no one left behind.
Executive director of National Planning Authority (NPA) Dr Joseph Muvawala while addressing guests at the event said higher education institutions cannot sustainably finance themselves and higher education in this country is not sustainable . He advised the country to invest for equity to require quality education. He went an extra mile to emphasize the high risks of many institutions losing out if graduates quality keeps low .
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Institutions cannot only rely on students’ funds for they are tasked to pay off quality lecturers and run school programs that makes it complicated to keep up hence poor quality graduates unable to compete in the job market
