The authorities at Nsamizi Training Institute for Social Development are asking for government support to carry out practical courses for learners there.
The appeal came as the institute principal, Dr Charles Kanyesigye, hosted the minister of state for education, Dr John Muyingo, at his campus in Mpigi, last week.
“We are requesting government to increase the funding package to our institute with a view that we expand our field hands–on vocational skills training programmes to the student population,” Kanyesigye said.
Established in 1953, Nsamizi is the oldest public tertiary institution in the country, committed to social development training.
“[The institute] employs competency-based learning approaches to students in all taught courses and we also carry out community outreaches that engage dozens of sub-counties in the country,” he said.
“We recently graduated over 270 officers from the JLOS [Justice, Law and Order sector], who include magistrates, prosecutors, advocates, legal practitioners, while another 270 [came] from World Vision Uganda,” he added.
Dr Kanyesigye lamented that the mushrooming numbers of vocational training institutions across the country were eroding the quality of students’ training. He said these schools had seen enrollment dwindle from 3,000 in recent years to the current 1,500 students.
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