Another department at Makerere University suspends evening lectures
Following the suspension of evening lectures for the School of Languages, Literature and Communications yesterday, and the school of law last week, another department has joined the wagon.
On Tuesday, the head of Department of European and Oriental Languages (DEOL), Dr Edith Natukunda-Togboa in communication to the dean School of Languages, Literature and Communication (SLLC) noted that during a Departmental Consultation meeting held on January 29th 2018, lecturers resolved to abstain from conducting evening lessons over similar claims.
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"Several of them are either pursuing PhD studies or just registering for the same. The evening teaching thus is an extra burden that we would like to avoid. It was resolved therefore that under the circumstances, we will not be teaching on the Evening programme this Semester," Dr. Natukunda said.
Dr. Andrew Elias State, the Dean of the School of Social Sciences, says the board is meeting to pronounce itself on the matter since it faces similar challenges.
Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, the Makerere University Vice Chancellor, says the University Council resolved agreed in October last year to a Management proposal to remunerate staff teaching on the evening programs pending a final decision on the salary incentives.
"I actually communicated this position on the staff mailing list. Apparently this information was not captured by many colleagues, including principals and deans," Prof. Nawangwe says.
According to Prof. Nawangwe, the university management had requested colleges to summit timetables and workloads on evening programs to enable implementation of the Council decision, which hasn't been complied with.
He notes that only one college has submitted the requested information since the communication was made last year.
"We have once again requested for the information so that we expedite implementation. I wish to assure colleagues teaching on evening programs, that the issue is being handled and request them to continue providing service diligently and avoid costly disruptions," Prof. Nawangwe said.
