Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi

							Uganda Martyrs University
        Nkozi
IT Human Resource Development
       William Mugisha
     wmugisha@umu.ac.ug
                 Overview
• Private University owned by the Catholic
  Bishops of Uganda
• Situated 82 Kilometers from Kampala on
  Kampala-Masaka Highway
• A Higher Institution of Learning in a Rural Area
• Resident Students, Part-time Students and Long
  Distance Student (Total of 1800 Students)
• Adopted an Open Source Policy operating Suse
  Linux both at the Back end and the Front end.
             CSIS and ICT
• Academic Section : Department of
  Computer Science and Information
  Systems, in the Faculty of Science

• Technical / Maintainance wing: ICT
  Department
        Both Departments Compliment one another
              With very close collaboration
             Capacity Building
• Training

  In- House Training through
  Workshops, with emphasis on trickle down effect
  i.e training many as locally as possible with both
  Local and International Facilitators
     Capacity Building cont’d
• Training cont’d
  External Training with participants going
  abroad for further Training/ Studies these
  are selected on basis of the backlog
  experienced in the IT Human Resource
Short Specialised Courses e.g
Oracle 4 Linux Systems,
Master of Science and Phd
       Capacity Building cont’d
• Research
  The Nuffic IT Wireless project focuses on developing a
  Centre of excellence with focus on: - Development of a
  cost friendly rural wireless kit with UMU as a test bed.
  CSIS, ICT and selected Final year Students (Comp
  Science, EDS participating)
  -    Curriculum Development &
  -    IT Research Methodologies
• Institutional collaboration
• Selection of finalists as teaching/lecturing assistants
  mentored and trained through the Faculty of Education
  on delivery methods
             Challenges!!
• Bandwidth
• Full time qualified staff e.g Phd MSc MBA-
  IT (Academia vs Industry)
• Dynamic IT Environment
• Power fluctuations and costs of running
  generator Insurance costs
• Taxes on Educational / training equipment
             Opportunities
• Relatively small number of students is
  easy to manage in terms of training /
  preparation Comp:Student ratio 1:3 , Staff
  1:1.8
• Institutional collaboration e.g EACOSS,
  MUK, KU MUBS, etc
               Way forward
• Strengthening Inter institutional collaboration
• More need for tracer studies to give feedback to
  the demands of industry
• Positive Discrimination in remuneration of IT
  staff
• Strengthening and Supporting Research and
  Publication as an add-on to existing net carry
  home e.g I@Mak

     Thank you very much for your attention!