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New Vision (Kampala)
September 30, 2003
Posted to the web September 30, 2003
John Eremu
Kampala
MAKERERE University is one of six African institutions of higher learning to benefit from a US $100m (sh200b) grant from four US charities.
The initiative from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation will support the universities in their reform strategies.
The other universities to benefit from the five-year programme are in Mozambique, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Dar es Salaam University in Tanzania.
"These institutions are breaking with outmoded traditions and embarking on major institutional and academic changes, including new financial formulas, course structures and governance practices," the charities said in a statement circulated at the on-going conference on improving tertiary education in Africa.
"African governments also increasingly recognise the value of these reforms in development and poverty alleviation.
"Other factors promoting change in these universities are democratisation, decentralisation and economic reform, which grant greater autonomy to public institutions," the statement added.
The conference was organised by World Bank, the ADEA working group on higher education, the Association of African Universities and Ghana National Council for Tertiary Education.
