{"id":16997,"date":"2015-03-19T08:10:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T08:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=16997"},"modified":"2015-03-19T08:10:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T08:10:30","slug":"300-billion-needed-to-end-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/300-billion-needed-to-end-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"300 billion needed to end strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16998\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Muk-strike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16998\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Muk-strike-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Makerere university students in a recent strike over the new tuition policy.  (Courtesy Daily Monitor)\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Muk-strike-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Muk-strike.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makerere university students in a recent strike over the new tuition policy. (Courtesy Daily Monitor)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By Herbert Zziwa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government should honour its pledge of Shs. 300 billion to public universities to help end strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The government is expected to remit this fund in the coming financial year in form of staff wages as one way of reducing the university expenditure on salaries.<\/p>\n<p>The General Secretary Makerere University Academic Staff Association Louis Kakinda says universities are forced to hike tuition because they are underfunded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think that once this money comes through, we\u2019ll see a drastic reduction of these rampant strikes. If you are number four in Africa and climbing up, we should maintain both the quality on paper and in conduct,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Kakinda says the quality of education in public universities is likely to be compromised if the causes of student\u2019s strikes are not addressed.<\/p>\n<p>He has urged the ministry of finance to make sure that the president\u2019s pledge is actually honoured in the coming budget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Herbert Zziwa The government should honour its pledge of Shs. 300 billion to public universities to help end strikes. The government is expected to remit this fund in the coming financial year in form of staff wages as one way of reducing the university expenditure on salaries. The General Secretary Makerere University Academic Staff Association Louis Kakinda says universities are forced to hike tuition because they are underfunded. \u201cWe think that once this money comes through, we\u2019ll see a drastic reduction of these rampant strikes. If you are number four in Africa and climbing up, we should maintain both the quality on paper and in conduct,\u201d he says. Kakinda says the quality of education in public universities is likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16998,"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-16997","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\/16997"}],"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=16997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}