Makerere University recommends scrapping off courses with less than 200 students|Vok News

The report on the Evening and allowances review committee of Makerere University has recommended scrapping off of courses with less than 200 students.

Some of the courses which have reduced in students numbers according to Dr Vincent Ssembatya, the director for Quality Assurance at Makerere, include Bachelor of Electrical engineering which used to have 126 students but now has 80, Civil Engineering from 130 dropping to 90 students. 

The numbers in the Mechanical engineering course also reduced from 83 to now 60, BA Social Sciences dropped to 600 students while Bachelor of Ethics and Human Rights was scrapped off phasing out its 400 students.

Dr. Ssembatya attributes the drop in the numbers of students to funding and constant fees paid by students in relation to the changes in dollar rates plus the deteriorating equipment especially in the science section.

The committee noted that a number of evening programmes had less than 100 students and in some cases less than 50. This implied that it was not practical for the university to keep them as evening courses because of the extra cost they incurred.

The committee based on statistics provided to them by two university directorates of Quality Assurance and Planning and Development.