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After going through Makerere and being a leader their, I can tell you the university needs to be revamped. I see people attacking Victoria University but we need to call a spade a spade, Makerere University needs to change. 1. There's no nobility in a student suffering during studying, exams and even graduation. The university is good but if we don't innovate we shall start comparing ourselves to local universities. Makerere used to compete with Harvard, Oxford. From creating test kits for HIV, Malaria, Sickle cell disease used globally. Ebola vaccine, Anti tick vaccine, Burkitt's Lymphoma discovery ( a serious cancer now recognized globally), Endomyocardial fibrosis, Buruli Ulcer, Kiira EV, (the first electric vehicle in Uganda), Karposi Sarcoma Research, HIVNET 012 that up to now is used to save babies born of mothers with HIV. Discovery of circumcision as to reducing HIV transmission, something even WHO adopted and government programs changed to foster this. The Makerere Radio Speech Corpus (over 155hrs of Luganda radio speech data used for speech recognition) and much more. Producing millionaires, pharmaceutical research, Startups and bringing collaborations with global corporations including Microsoft, Google and more. 2. When you compare Makerere of then and one of today, the innovation is declining. Graduation hasn't changed over a century. Compared to what Victoria University is doing today, Makerere would be mikes ahead in how graduation ceremonies are handled. We can do better and accept when someone does something better, VU graduation ceremony is great. 3. Teaching also is becoming hard, there's a big gap between students and lecturers. Makerere used to have a strong student-lecturer bond and mentorship but now a student can graduate and no lecturer can even tell you about who they're, their names or anything. 4. Also the university is build around oppression as a sign of quality. You read everything and when you're before colleagues from other universities, you know so much, well educated and skilled with diverse knowledge in many fields but those same students have better grades than you. Meaning you know much but on paper, their universities aren't mean with marks. Most lecturers at Makerere still pride in giving less marks as a proof that their programmes are hard. 5. When it comes to graduate programmes, a program of 3yrs ends up in 5yrs because a student has to toll with supervisors. Makerere is still the Greatest University in Uganda, East and Central Africa, South of Liver Limpopo. The greatest export of this country but it's dying. That's why, now other universities are even competing. It's even absurd that some people are even trying to compare it to VU... Really, it's an insult not that VU isn't a great institution but Makerere is the Harvard of Africa that is dying. 1. The university needs to build it's alumni base and relationship to help mentor students and expose them to real word experience before they even graduate. 2. Lecturers need to stop being opportunists and start building bonds with students to give teach them real world practical knowledge, understand them and guide them better. Currently most of them are just there to make money and also become affiliated to Makerere just to hype their CVs but not doing real teaching. 3. Improve on PR of the university, it's doing a lot but no one knows about it and in this day and era, doing anything you don't publish is equivalent to doing nothing. What you don't speak is equivalent to not done. VU has out done its self on this, they're doing some good PR. 4. Come back to society and resume solving real problems affecting people like infrastructure, healthcare, food security etc. It's has the highest concentration of great brains in this country. Lastly: Work on the PR Work on the PR Work on the PR Work on the PR