Heads Of Public Universities Concludes Four-Day Retreat In Juba Vice Chancellors and their deputies from five Public universities on Thursday concluded a four-day retreat on management of the universities in an effort to improve the quality of education. 08 August 2015
By Jok P Mayom *JUBA, 07 August 2015 [Gurtong]-*The four days kicked off on Monday at Dembesh Hotel in Juba bringing together the Vice Chancellors and their deputies from five public universities of Juba, Upper Nile, Bahr el Ghazal, Rumbek and Dr. John Garang Universities. Hon. Bol Makueng Yol, the deputy Minister of Education Science and Technology said the meeting was organized by the National Ministry of Education Science and Technology. “We were in this retreat for the last four days. The retreat was organized by the Ministry of Education Science and Technology for the vice Chancellors and the Deputy Vice Chancellors for Public Universities” said Bol. “All of us converged here and we discussed issues that will stabilize the universities, it was only management issues” said Bol adding that “It is just two things; stick to rules and regulation for management of their universities and appointment of very qualified academic students with good grades who are to be appointed as lecturers” Bol said. “We also talked about the university council, functions of the senate and Vice Chancellor and their deputies so that when they are working, it will harmonize their activities. In the end it was agreed that this good practices will be put into use by the public universities” he said. Bol said some of the recommendation will be presented during the meeting of the council of Higher Education in December. Prof. Isaac Chuir Riak, the Vice Chancellor of Upper Nile University on his part said the meeting was important for the Vice Chancellors and their deputies. “We learnt a lot about the challenges that are facing our national universities. We have been able to learn how to work together as V.Cs and Deputy V.Cs” “We also scrutinized some of our operations at the National Universities level and these now are being harmonized so that we work together for the improvement of universities’ education quality” said Prof. Chuir. Prof. Samson Wasara, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Bahr El Ghazal said “This forum is important in that we have come together to learn how to manage our institutions. We have come to learn also about issues that make people different so the contribution is not issues of question and answers but it’s a kind of elaborative way of addressing common problems” Prof. Wasara explained. Prof. Julia Akeer Duany, Vice Chancellor of the University of Dr. John Garang said “since we were appointed we have not been sitting together to share the experience. We looked at the challenges those universities are facing and particularly our two universities; Upper Nile University and Dr.John Garang University” Duany explained. Prof. Poulino Riak, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of Juba said “I think I really benefited a lot; we have learnt from each of the five Public Universities to see how we did in the past one year; what was good and the challenges in the past years.” Some of the challeges that were discussed during the meeting included lack of students’ accommodation and dining rooms. Posted in: Home <http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14or_Cse28ZNEdJjSSn%3DhymsC72fMPvqJmvD85sxjVEryDw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
