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Title:The legal control of tertiary institutions in East Africa: the case of Makerere University
Author:Oloka-Onyango, J.ISNI
Year:1989
Periodical:The Zimbabwe Law Review
Volume:7-8
Pages:57-71
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:East Africa
Uganda
Subjects:educational policy
universities
law
legal status
Universities and colleges
Makerere University
Abstract:Since the beginning of 1989 postsecondary educational institutions throughout Africa have erupted in protests, strikes and demonstrations. African governments retaliated with closures, expulsions, imprisonments and even brutal physical force. While these eruptions cannot be divorced from the wider movement of social forces in Africa today, they also quite specifically reflect the peculiar crisis of the African systems of education. In this context, it is important to critically consider the nature of the legal controls exercised over tertiary educational institutions in Africa. This paper deals with one such institution, Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. It first provides a history of the evolution of the legal mechanisms governing tertiary education in Uganda, commencing with the establishment of Makerere University in 1922 up to the dissolution of the University of East Africa (consisting of the University Colleges of Makerere, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam) in 1970. Then it deals with the postcolonial legal control of Makerere University, examining provisions of the Makerere University Act of 1970, the 1975 Decree (amending the 1970 Act), and the related mechanisms of control in the 1970s and 1980s. The last section examines legal control by the present National Resistance Movement (NRM) government under President Yoweri Museveni. The conclusion is that the autocratic character of the legal controls never will solve the crisis in tertiary education in East Africa. Bibliogr., notes, ref. (Also published in: Africa Development, vol. 17 (1992), no. 4, p. 47-66.)
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