Kasozi, A.B.K. (2006) “The politics of fees in Uganda” in International Higher Education v. 43 (www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/newsletter/Number43/p23_Kasozi.htm)
Not much that will be useful for comps.
June 2005 – Parliament rescinds Makerere University administrative decision to hike tuition fees and align them (so Kasozi states) with “a reasonable percentage of unit costs.”
November 2005 – students at Makerere strike in protest of implementation of much more costly examination fees (boosted from Ush3,000 to Ush100,000 – roughly $2 to $75)
“At most Ugandan universities, students pay about 30% of the annual cost of the programs in which they are registered. Government institutions – with decreasing government budget allocations coupled with deteriorating infrastructure, declining ability to purchase inputs, and increasing student numbers – are unlikely to provide high-quality higher education for a sustainable period of time.”
“A number of high schools, the so-called First World Schools, in Uganda charge fees that are higher or equal to those charged by universities. Yet the politics of fees that is contributing to the decay of Uganda’s public university system is apparently absent at the school level. Like private universities, public institutions should be able to charge fees at market value without undue pressure from the political system.”
Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act of 2001 – find it!
