How Makerere failed in its attempts to become university

Makerere University will hold centenary cerebrations in October. Remarkably, the programme asserts and historicises Makerere as a university. But how is Makerere a ‘university’? By 1970, Makerere was a university college under the University of East Africa when Parliament politically proclaimed it a university. The title university did not automatically translate the university college to a university. Further, Makerere has since not advanced from a university college to a full university. Difference A university is different and higher than a university college, which is higher than a college…

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