{UAH} Only 37% employers satisfied with Uganda's graduates-I TOTALLY AGREE WHEN POTENTIAL PEOPLE LIKE AROMA PATRICK ARE DENIED DEGREES ON POLITICAL GROUNDS-PRESIDENT MUSEVENI STATE HOUSE ORDERS!!!

Only 37% employers satisfied with Uganda’s graduatesPublish Date: May 22, 2014

Participates at the inter- University council for East Africa (IUCEA) stake holders validation workshop of the draft East African Qualifications Framework for Higher Education. PHOTO: Tony Rujuta

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By John Agaba

Ugandan higher institutions of learning rank fourth in the region as far as passing out graduates who are ready for the job market is concerned.

A new report into the educational gaps paralyzing higher education in the East African region shows that Uganda, for decades considered a favoured destination by many EA nationals wishing to better their academics for the quality education the higher institutions of learning in the country offered, now ranks fourth, as regards churning out graduates who are well prepared for the job market is concerned.

Many of the graduates, universities and other tertiary institutions in Uganda pass out, according to the report, are not well prepared for the job market. They do not have the practical hands on skills to enable them adapt easily in the work world, the report says.

A work by the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA), the report shows that of the total employers interviewed in Uganda, only 37% were satisfied with Ugandan graduates. The rest 63% faulted the graduates, saying the employees they had hired for the past one year hadn’t been adequately prepared by their pre-hire institutions.

However, 82% of the higher institutions interviewed maintained that they had adequately prepared the graduates for the job market.

According to the report, conducted from December 2012 to January 2014, Kenyan institutions rank first. They produce more graduates who have practical hands on skills necessary for easy adaptability at work. Forty nine percent of the respondents (Kenyan employers) said the employees they had hired the previous year, had the necessary hands on skills to work.

“They didn’t need after-hire training to do what was expected of them,” one of the respondents is quoted in the report. Rwandan institutions rank second. Tanzanian third. After Uganda, it is Burundi institutions that come last.

Prof. Eli Katunguka, the Kyambogo University Ag. Vice Chancellor said many universities and other institutions of higher learning in the country were unable to produce ready-for-the-market graduates because of the poor money allocations given to them.

Makerere University churns out over 5000 graduands every year

“Many subjects have a very big practical component, and practical teaching is very expensive. But how much funding do our universities receive to support practical education? There is no funding,” Katunguka said.

“To produce a good veterinary doctor, for example, a person should have worked with animals for more than 50% of their time at university.

The University should buy the animals, and the student should be taken to the field on a daily basis. But what do we have? Veterinary doctors who have never seen an animal deliver. It is very sad to think that you produce a veterinary doctor when he has never touched an animal,” Katunguka said.

The report, presented on Tuesday during the IUCEA stakeholders meeting at the Entebbe Protea Hotel, also shows that Uganda trails Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi in terms of higher education infrastructure and student enrolment.

It shows that while Uganda has only 47 institutions of higher learning (universities and other degree awarding institutions); Tanzania has 142, Kenya 104, and Burundi 52. The same applies to student enrolment. The report shows that the total number of students in Uganda higher institutions of learning stands at 147,786, while that in Kenya institutions stands at 279,501. Tanzania has a total enrolment of 182,359 students in its higher institutions of learning.

Mary Acan, a master’s student, blamed the report’s findings on commercialization of education. “You find one lecturer teaching in six universities. Where does he get the time? Instead of investing in research, they spend all their time marking students’ scripts,” Acan said.

“We hardly have any graduates that can be readily employable. But this does not mean that they cannot adjust to the job market if the employer takes them through what is required of them,” Prof. John Asibo said. He said that the private sector or the employer in this case too has a role to play to furnish the new-from-university-employee with those additional hands on skills the university might not have taught them to enable them adapt.

“The problem is thinking that every higher institution of learning can be a university. There are institutions that should be training middle level graduates, such as artisans, welders, people who can repair cars. But we all want to produce engineers, engineers who cannot repair anything because they are only taught the science of how an engine operates, not how to repair it,” Katunguka said.

Prof. Eriabu Lugujjo, the Nkumba University Vice Chancellor and chairman Industrial Training Council said “we need to identify programs relevant to our social economic development and prioritize them. If they require much funding, we provide it.”

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Aroma Patrick

Founder & Executive Director- Camkwoki Grass Root Initiative For Development

And Secretary for Administration and Coordination of Lango Community Development Cluster-Consortium of Ten  NGO'S,Cooperative Societies and one Company

Founder & Managing Director

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And Founder&Chairman  Lira Innovative Business Club Association-Consortium of Thirty Registered Companies Pooling Resources On The Basis of Advanced VSLA Model Together and Doing Diverse Businesses
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My Motto "OBSTACLES CAN'T STOP ME,PROBLEMS CAN'T STOP ME AND MOST OF ALL THE MAFIAS AND THE DEVILS SHALL NEVER-NEVER-NEVER STOP ME"

AROMA PATRICK-THE TRUE SON OF UGANDA!!!THIS IS MY COUNTRY!!!THIS IS MY MOTHERLAND-THE PEARL OF AFRICA DOES NOT BELONG TO THE MAFIAS ALONE,I WHO IS WALKING IN THE SHADOWS OF DEATH DAILY  AND LIVING  ON BORROWED TIMES  UNDER GOD'S PROTECTION  SINCE I SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD,BURIED SIX FEET UNDER-I,THE UNWANTED AND HATED,THE MOST VILIFIED AND SABOTAGED,THE DOWNTRODDEN AND CRIPPLED,THE INNOCENTLY DELIBERATELY TORTURED AND PERSECUTED IS ALSO A SHAREHOLDER AND A STAKEHOLDER WITH FULL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS TO PARTICIPATE IN ITS DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION IN ALL SECTORS AND SPHERES-NO GOING TO EXILE,NO RETREAT AND NO SURRENDER TO THE MAFIAS!!!THE END MUST SET ALL UGANDANS FREE AND CREATE A BETTER LIFE FOR ALL!!! "THE RIGHT TO BE TREATED WITH RESPECT AND COURTESY,THE RIGHT TO LIVE AND THE RIGHT TO DIGNITY ARE NOT FAVORS TO BE BESTOWED BY ANYBODY:THEY ARE THE BIRTH RIGHT OF EVERY HUMAN BEING"DECLARES PRESIDENT YOWERI MUSEVENI AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS BUSH WAR IN 1981!!!page 182-The Minds of Achievers-The Seeds of Greatness by GRACE MUSIIME MUGYENZI,Get a copy of this book at Uganda Book Shop-Opposite Communication House,Kampala.

MANAGING DIRECTOR

CAMKWOKI INVESTMENTS LIMITED

Dealers in General Merchandise, Agro Input and Chemicals and Agro- Processing

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 A VICTIM OF APARTHEID ETHNICALLY ENTRENCHED GENOCIDAL CUM TERRORIST MAFIA DICTATORSHIP OF MUSEVENI,SUPER -BLOODY MAFIA STRATEGIST AMAMA MBABAZI,THE DEADLY SAM ENGOLA/MUSEVENI LANGO HENCHMAN  AND THEIR MAFIAS OPPOSITION/LANGO MAFIA  NETWORKS PLUS A VICTIM OF NORTHERN UGANDA NRM GRAND HUMAN RESOURCE DESTRUCTION POLICY OF ITS POTENTIALS AND GRAND NRM ECONOMIC SABOTAGE PLANS TO KEEP THE NORTH PERPETUALLY IN POVERTY/TURN US INTO BEGGARS,A NORTHERN UGANDA GENOCIDE SURVIVOR,MY RIGHT LEG BROKEN ON 24/JUNE/2001 IN  FRONT OF SAM ENGOLA LIRA HOTEL IN THE PRESENCE OF PRESIDENTIAL GUARD BRIGADE WHO PROTECTED MUSEVENI IN LIRA WHILE CAMPAIGNING FOR SAM ENGOLA THAT DAY-SURVIVING DEATH MIRACULOUSLY DUE TO GOD'S PROTECTION  AND I ESCAPED SEVERAL MURDER ATTEMPTS ON MY LIFE  RIGHT FROM 2000 TO DATE-POLITICALLY PERSECUTED,ECONOMICALLY SABOTAGED IN BUSINESS AND MY NGO PROJECTS, DENIED ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE/ EDUCATION-EXPELLED FROM MAKERERE UNIVERSITY IN FOURTH YEAR  WHILE PURSUING BACHELOR OF LAWS  AND COMPLETELY FRUSTRATED IN TERMS OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT,SOCIALLY DISLOCATED -ISOLATED AND LIVING IN PAINED PHYSICALLY,MENTALLY,EMOTIONALLY WHILE SPIRITUALLY FOUGHT WITH NRM EVIL SPIRITS(MAYEMBES/KIFARO) AND CULTURALLY UPROOTED BECAUSE OF OPPOSING/DISAGREEING WITH MUSEVENI & HIS NRM MAFIA POLITICAL  PARTY,HAILING FROM A WRONG REGION/ TRIBE/CLAN .I PATRICK AROMA TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE AFFIRM AND CONFIRM THAT WHAT I HAVE STATED HERE IS THE TRUTH AND THE WHOLE TRUTH NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS BEING DONE TO YOU OR YOUR SON BY YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT??? A MAFIA GOVERNMENT IN MY OWN MOTHERLAND WHO HATES TO SEE MY PROGRESS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY -IF THIS IS NOT APARTHEID THEN WHAT IS IT ??? FROM 1999-2004 I WAS ON TEL:NO 0772-621-761 which MTN MADE IT IN ACCESSIBLE/BLOCKED AND LATER SOLD TO ANOTHER PERSON BEFORE TAKING ON 0782-658-458.ALL MY COMMUNICATIONS AT THAT MATERIAL TIME CAN BE ACCESSED ON 0772-621-761. 

MY FIFTY YEARS DEADLY JOURNEY TO THE GOLDEN TRAGEDIES OF OUR MOTHERLAND-WHY I NEVER CELEBRATED THE  JUBILEE!!!

1962-1975-1 was not yet born

1976-1979-IDI AMIN MURDERED MY UNCLES THE LATE HON: AROMA MARTIN,EMOR BEN AND MY FATHER THE LATE PETER OGWAL 

1980-1986

WE SURVIVED ON RELIEF FOOD (YELLO POSHO +BEANS) under very difficult conditions as orphans though we had plenty of cattle that was eventually stolen by NRM/UPDF

1986-2000 My Childhood Destruction

NRA/UPDF STOLE ALL OUR CATTLE WHEN I WAS LOOKING AFTER THEM AND RAPED MY COUSIN SISTER IN MY PRESENCE

Museveni SURAMBAYA FIGHTER JETS BOMBS OUR HOME VILLAGE-FIVE KILOMETERS FROM LIRA TOWN AND I SURVIVED AS MANY INNOCENT CIVILIANS WERE KILLED PLUS LIVE STOCKS

Alice Lakwena War BEGAN that really exposed us to a lot of dead bodies bombed,shot and cut with matchetes LYING LIFELESS FROM OUR VILLAGE TO LIRA TOWN

Gen: David Tinyefuza OPERATIONS NORTH where even Children were not spared KIBOKO-we were thoroughly caned by UPDF as they arrested the 18 famous Northern Uganda Politicians at that material time

2000-2012

NRA Mafias start my PERSECUTION at Makerere University

Breaking of my leg

Expulsion from Makerere

Museveni STATE HOUSE PLUS THEIR MAFIA NETWORKS ON MY HOT PURSUIT DEVISING ALL STRATEGIES TO MURDER ME

 2012 ON WARDS

• STILL SURVIVING THE MAFIAS,LIVING IN FEAR AND PAIN,BEING HUNTED LEFT,RIGHT AND CENTER BY MAFIAS PLUS THEIR NETWORKS.
• ON 29/JANUARY/2004 DURING RADIO ONE EKIMEEZA TALKSHOW AT CLUB OBBLIGATTO I REVEALED THE PRESENCE OF MUSEVENI CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION BOUGHT FROM NORTH KOREA AND IRAN-THAT WAS HIDDEN UNDER GULU AIRPORT HUNKER AND THE UNITED NATIONS GRABBED,DESTROYED AND TOOK AWAY THE REMAINING ONES TO UNKNOWN DESTINATION-THIS IS ONE REASON WHY PRESIDENT MUSEVENI AND HIS MAFIAS CAN NEVER-NEVER-I SAY NEVER FORGIVE ME SINCE I EXPOSED AND SPOILED THEIR DEADLY DESTRUCTIVE AGENDA FOR NORTHERN UGANDA!!!

ON-TOP OF THE ABOVE,NO TERM LIMITS PROMOTING LIFE PRESIDENCY, CREATING HOPELESSNESS, UNCERTAINTY & CONSOLIDATING APARTHIED PLUS TRIBALISM, THERE IS MASSIVE POVERTY,UNEMPLOYMENT,HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES,IMPUNITY,MURDERS,INEQUALITY,GENOCIDE,DISUNITY IN THE COUNTRY,ETC

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