{"id":28525,"date":"2022-11-01T17:34:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/regional-mps-push-for-closure-of-quack-universities"},"modified":"2022-11-01T18:13:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:13:11","slug":"regional-mps-push-for-closure-of-quack-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/regional-mps-push-for-closure-of-quack-universities","title":{"rendered":"Regional MPs push for closure of \u2018quack\u2019 universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) are expressing concern over \u2018substandard\u2019 universities which are producing graduates with knowledge that is far short of the required level in the East African Community (EAC). They called for action to address the problem.<\/p>\n

They made the appeal during the EALA Plenary that adopted the report of this regional parliament’ Committee on General Purpose on the oversight activity to assess the progress made by the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) in the harmonisation of education systems in the EAC.<\/p>\n

IUCEA is an institution of EAC responsible for coordinating the development of higher education and research in the region. It currently has 133 members, including both public and private higher learning institutions, the Committee report indicated.<\/p>\n

This number, it said, is expected to increase significantly with the demand of higher education in the region continuing to increase, triggered by the corresponding expansion of basic education in all the EAC Partner States.<\/p>\n

George Stephen Odongo said that substandard universities are something that the region should deal with to save its education system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an epidemic that has hit the East African Community, it\u2019s an epidemic of higher institutions of learning. There are so many that today you get a qualification from this university and after one month, you can\u2019t trace where it [that institution] is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEducation goes to the very heart of our social transformation,\u201d he said, indicating that it is critical to development and that the Inter-University Council of East Africa should have all the necessary support it requires for it to be able to dispense its function effectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s time that this Assembly and the Community begin to pay much attention to the accrediting of these institutions that have become an embarrassment to our community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

MP Thoar Gatpan Gideon said that there are some universities and colleges that have just cropped up and are exploiting EAC citizens by offering degrees [as academic papers without useful knowledge] to graduates.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s high time that the East African Community addresses this kind of institutions so that we can the quality education that we want,\u201d he said, indicating that some of the university graduates are unable to speak [effectively] any of the languages of the EAC, or demonstrate in terms of writing, wondering whether they can contribute to the development of the Community.<\/p>\n

For MP Susan Nakawuki Nsambu, “there is an entrenched national interest in all our Partner States when it comes to issues of harmonisation of academic systems and academic curricula.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been decrying the standards of the universities we have in the region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

She suggested that there was a lack of urgent attention within the EAC Council of Ministers to adopt a plan to transform the IUCEA into a regional body that would grant accreditation to universities.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there is no doubt that the IUCEA has the capacity to do that. But for selfish reasons, the Council of Ministers could not even agree on this very small matter that would take our education system ahead. And that\u2019s why we have lukewarm graduates,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The abovementioned EALA Committee recommended the harmonisation of accreditation practices in the EAC region. This, it said, will increase visibility and recognition of the higher education institutions\/programmes and promote student and [academic] staff mobility.<\/p>\n

According to the Committee, the increased demand for higher education at national, regional and global levels, make IUCEA an important institution to support national and regional coordinated strategies for fostering higher education and research development in the region.<\/p>\n

University tuition harmonisation in EAC<\/p>\n

The Committee said it observed the different tuition fees for students, charged by higher education institutions in the EAC Partner States, which poses a challenge in promoting cross-border student mobility in the region.<\/p>\n

In view of this issue, the Assembly adopted the Committee recommendation to urge the EAC Council of Ministers to request Partner States’ member universities [\/higher learning institutions] to adopt a common fees structure model for regional students at both public and private higher education institutions in the region.<\/p>\n

EALA heard that the drive for harmonisation of higher education in the region came into force in July 2010 after the establishment of the EAC Common Market Protocol, which prompted the need to make higher education systems uniform in the Community, among others, ease mobility of learners and labours across the Partner States borders.<\/p>\n

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