{"id":16856,"date":"2015-03-09T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=16856"},"modified":"2015-03-09T09:41:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:41:03","slug":"muk-strike-ddumba-meets-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/muk-strike-ddumba-meets-students\/","title":{"rendered":"MUK strike-Ddumba meets students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Muk-strike-fresh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16857\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Muk-strike-fresh-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Muk strike fresh\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Muk-strike-fresh-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Muk-strike-fresh-950x713.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Muk-strike-fresh.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A meeting is underway between Makerere university student leaders and the university vice-chancellor Prof Edward Ddumba.<\/p>\n<p>It follows this morning\u2019s strike in which the students were protesting the delay in accessing the faculty funds for government sponsored students.<br \/>\nThe government sponsored students were also joined by private students who were protesting the policy to have them clear tuition in the first six weeks of the semester.<br \/>\nOne of the students who spoke out in the dialogue meeting voiced his frustration at the university.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government has supported me well right from High school up to this university. When I came to this university, the government thought it wise that they need to support us because they know that government (sponsored) students are guaranteed of financial support from elsewhere,\u201d the unnamed student said.<br \/>\nHe said they need to photocopy handouts, type and print their course works but they are not being paid.<br \/>\nHowever, the Vice chancellor John Ddumba Ssentamu said that he was only following policies drafted before his assumed office.<br \/>\nHe says the previous university leadership converted the faculty fund into the university special faculty fund to buy books and other necessities for faculties.<br \/>\nHe has however promised that he would look into the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting is underway between Makerere university student leaders and the university vice-chancellor Prof Edward Ddumba. It follows this morning\u2019s strike in which the students were protesting the delay in accessing the faculty funds for government sponsored students. The government sponsored students were also joined by private students who were protesting the policy to have them clear tuition in the first six weeks of the semester. One of the students who spoke out in the dialogue meeting voiced his frustration at the university. \u201cThe government has supported me well right from High school up to this university. When I came to this university, the government thought it wise that they need to support us because they know that government (sponsored) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}