Prof. Nawangwe orders college heads to submit list of expired courses

Nawangwe’s directive was revealed in a memo to all university staff on Monday, May 22 2023 following shocking revelations that hundreds of Makerere’s academic programmes had expired.

He said the National Council for Higher Education (NHCE) had not accredited a good number of the university’s academic programmes which has led to admission rejection of graduates from the university by universities in Europe.

Statistics obtained from the NHCE indicate that about 1,470 academic programmes in institutions of higher learning have expired.

According to NCHE, affected universities and tertiary institutes are both public and private, but the most affected are the biggest.

Both graduate and undergraduate academic programmes are affected with some having expired as far as a decade ago.

Makerere University together with her sister university, Makerere University Business School, are the most affected as both of them have a combined total of more than 100 academic programmes that have expired.

Nawangwe said there had been laxity partly on their side due to delays in the review of some programmes by departments, schools, and colleges, and occasionally at the Senate level for re-accreditation as required by law.

“While on the side of the NCHE, there have been delays in processing programmes for accreditation and also delays in updating their website,” he said.

The Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions, Quality Assurance Regulations 2008 requires that all academic programmes be reviewed every after five years.

The regulations are meant to ensure the appropriateness, relevancy and adequacy of programmes and courses of study as well as qualifications of staff and quality of students at institutions of higher learning