HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT KYAMBOGO UNIVERSITY

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HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT KYAMBOGO UNIVERSITY

• By Henry K. Matovu
• (Department of Computer Science, Kyambogo
  University)

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• Kyambogo University (KYU) is Ugandas third
  public University established. It was Constituted
  after the merger of
• Uganda Polytechnic Kyambogo(UPK),
• Institute of Teacher Education, Kyambogo (ITEK)
• Uganda National Institute of Special Education
  (UNISE)

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• The University was built on the original
  objectives of the three former institutions
  being
• to promote teacher education
• special needs education and rehabilitation
• technical and vocational education

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• All the programmes at the University are
  coordinated in six distinct faculties.
• Arts,
• Education,
• Engineering,
• Science,
• Vocational Studies,
• Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation.

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• The current student enrollment is between 10000
  and 15000
• About 350 are in the Computer science department.
  
• The University has a total staffing of about 400
  in all the Faculties

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Department of computer science

• Is the major department offering ICT programmes
  and training at Kyambogo University.
• One degree programme at the moment(Bachelor of
  Information technology and computing),
• Yearly enrollment of about 80 students.

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• Also offers a diploma and certificate in computer
  science
• 40 students at diploma level each year
• 40 students at certificate.
• A total of 350 students in the Department.
• The department also offers Cisco networking and
  Basic computer skill to all the University
  Community

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Staff

• Staffing is still a problem.
• It has fifteen academic members of staff
• Six technical staff that handle user support and
  maintenance of computer laboratories at the
  university.

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Human Resource and the ICT Policy

• Kyambogo University has an ICT policy.
• Any ICT related function is executed in line with
  this policy.
• Provides for the development and implementation
  of a consistent set of training programs with
  different levels for different categories of
  (potential) ICT users and provider of ICT
  knowledge.
• Provides End-user skills development that
  enforces awareness, general knowledge and
  specific skills related to the use of ICT.

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• Appointment into an academic position, will
  require to demonstrate the prescribed level of
  competence in ICT
• Or Staff already in service will be required to
  acquire the prescribed competence.
• In addition, all academic staff shall be required
  to demonstrate the prescribed level of competence
  in content development of e-learning within the
  Digital Learning Environment (DLE).
• And all new staff shall undergo training in
  education technology techniques with emphasis on
  E-learning.

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Human resource development

• Kyambogo University has a Staff development
  committee to handle
• all staff training at the University.
• It decides and allocates the funds set aside for
  capacity development.
• Priority is given to those who are upgrading for
  higher degrees.

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• 50 of the staff in the department of computer
  Science have already benefited from this scheme
  in pursuing Masters Programmes.
• These funds are generated Internally by the
  University while some are from the Government

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ICT Education Enhancement projects

• There various projects which have enhanced the
  University in ICT education and capacity building
  for all skill levels. These are
• Connect-ED
• IICD
• NPT Project

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Connect-ED (Connectivity for Educator
Development)

• The Government of USA - funded the Connect-Ed
  Project under the Education for Development of
  Democracy Initiative (EDDI) programme.
• focuses on introduction of ICT in teacher
  training.
• Connect-ED equipped Kyambogo University with a
  multimedia development and a training laboratory
  as well as eight(8) Primary Training
  Colleges(PTCs), with Internet connectivity in all
  these localities.

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• The eight (8) PTCs are affiliated to Kyambogo
  University which is the centre for this project.
  
• Four staff members were trained in various ICT
  skills in order to develop content and maintain
  the content laboratory and connectivity to the
  various college.
• The same centre has so far trained more than 60
  University staff in the basic computer skills and
  literacy.

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IICD (The International Institute for
Communication and Development)

• This is a non-profit foundation that specializes
  in Information and Communication Technologies
  (ICTs) as a tool for development
• Kyambogo University is one of the centres for
  this project.
• About 40 Lecturers of Kyambogo University were
  trained to compile and produce ICT based
  educational materials

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• Using the same laboratories of 40 computers, more
  than 50 staff members of the University have
  trained through this project in basic and
  advanced computer skills.
• workshops and seminars within this project were
  held to sensitize all parties concerned

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NPT Project

• This project addresses Information and
  Communication Technology (ICT) capacity building
  in the public universities in Uganda, where
  Kyambogo University, is one of the beneficiaries
• A number of staff in the Department of Computer
  Science have been trained since this project
  started in 2004.

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• Five members of staff are on training at MSc.
  Level in the Nertherlands and Uganda.
• Also one staff on a PhD programme under the same
  project.
• In addition, the following training of human
  resource has taken place

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• Training for trainers in International Computer
  Driving license (ICDL) Thirty(30) University
  staff benefited
• Twelve members of Kyambogo University trained in
  E-learning course.
• A total of seventy (70) women from staff members
  at Kyambogo University and other women from
  neighbouring NGOs, Secondary Schools, Health
  Centres were trained in basic ICT skills

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• Two(2) members of the technical staff trained in
  the Netherlands in Special ICT Technical Support
  in the area Managing and design of a campus
  computer network.
• In addition four(4) staff members were also
  trained as Cisco instructors

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Summary

• All categories of academic staff at the
  university are quite insufficient though many of
  the staff have received some further training
  through the staff development scheme and support
  of the projects.
• Given the dynamics in ICT, employees of all ranks
  should be continuously upgraded through further
  training

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• ICT staff as, to date, are quite marketable in
  various employment sectors. Thus, losing an ICT
  staff to a rival employment sector is quite easy.
  Here, flexibility could be considered in terms
  remuneration.
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• There is no human resource development if there
  are no funds. So the university should
• promote and improve financial resource generation
  and management systems
• increase and sustain the financial resource
  generation capacity in the University
• increase efforts to attract donor support for
  University programme. This will improve on the
  capacity development

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