Students from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences - CHUSS at Makerere University will not be receiving any services after their lecturers resolved to phase out teaching on the Evening program in the 2018/2019 academic year.
The decision was unanimously reached at during an emergency College Academic Board meeting chaired by Prof. Edward Kirumira, the College Principal held in the Gender Conference Hall at the school of Women and Gender Studies on Wednesday.
The aggrieved lecturers noted that teaching on the evening program in its current form is no longer tenable. "We have agreed to give management a grace period of up to February 14. And within that time, central management has agreed to clear all the dues related to evening program," Prof. Kirumira said.
During the same meeting, lecturers resolved that the college proposes modalities for a new program. According to Prof. Kirumira, the college is considering shifting the evening program to afternoon or running parallel programs.
Prof. Kirumira says that he has asked all deans to compile all claims by staff so as to forward them to the University for Payment.
Prof. Kirumira says there is need to rethink the evening program since it is not supported by support and administrative staff because most of them leave by 5:00 pm.
Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe thanked the lecturers for taking this decision, commending their maturity.
“I wish to thank lecturers of CHUSS for the decision to suspend planned industrial action over payment for evening programs. This maturity which allows for negotiated settlement of disputes will help the university rise higher and higher,” he wrote.
Lecturers advised all students on the evening program to join the day time lectures. The university held a meeting with the lecturers and asked them to resume teaching and promised to clear their areas by February 14th.
This comes just a day after the same university agreed to pay law dons their allowances to resume the evening program.