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TLC PROGRESS REPORT

REFORMS@MAK. TLC PROGRESS REPORT. FOR URAFR RETREAT 21 ST -23 RD OCTOBER, 2010. ARE YOU READY FOR CHANGE??. INTRODUCTION.

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TLC PROGRESS REPORT

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  1. REFORMS@MAK TLC PROGRESS REPORT FOR URAFR RETREAT 21ST -23RD OCTOBER, 2010 ARE YOU READY FOR CHANGE??

  2. INTRODUCTION • The main direction of the current strategic plan 2008/09 – 2018/19 is to reposition Makerere University as a centre of Academic excellence refocused on Learner centeredness, providing leadership as a Research driven University which is championing knowledge transfer partnerships and networking

  3. INTRODUCTION CONT’ • In order to effect this institutional and pedagogical shift the University Identified teaching and Learning, Research and Innovation, as well as knowledge transfer partnerships and networking as its core Functions.

  4. INTRODUCTION CONT’ • Whereas the outgoing Makerere University Strategic Plan 2001/02 – 2006/07 had recognized and recommended the transformation of existing faculties and Institutes into larger colleges as one of the strategies to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the overall organization and management, The Current University Council in its 2008 recommended that all Faculties & Institutes should implement college formation by the end of 2009.

  5. INTRODUCTION CONT’ • Based on the above, the URAF Reforms Committee was established to rationalize and prepare the process of institutional transformation with the TLC Sub Committee being charged with the Pedagogical, Teaching & Academic Structural reforms.

  6. METHOD OF WORK The TLC has endeavored to identify, critique and re-engineer the Teaching and Learning as well as the College Formation processes through: • Study of the existing literature on the transforming teaching and Learning functions and the devolution of powers to operational units • Organizing workshops and inviting expert witnesses on pedagogical and Institutional reforms • Benchmarking visits to Universities in Africa which has undergone similar reforms recently. • Consultations with Stakeholders in University Teaching Units • Development of recommendations &Policy Guidelines for the implementation recommended pedagogical and institutional changes

  7. PROGRESS ACHIEVED The TLC as a Sub Committee of URAFRC has: • Completed the process of review of the available literature and relevant legal and Policy Framework • Literature on Higher Education reforms in Uganda and East Africa -Conceptional frameworks for pedagogical shifts to student centered learning and College formats -Theoretical orientation in re- engineering organizational Processes

  8. PROGRESS ACHIEVED CONT’ • The Sub Committee has also identified the 10 Core processes relevant to Teaching, Learning and College formation (AS-IS) as per the mind map attached .

  9. PROGRESS ACHIEVED CONT’ • The 10 processes can be further divided in 53 Sub Processes of the teaching and learning cycle • 75% of the Identified core processes and Sub Processes have been interrogated using the analytical framework of process analysis and re-engineering.

  10. SAMPLE OF THE CRITICAL EXAMINATION SHEET USED

  11. PROGRESS ACHIEVED CONT’ • The above analytical framework was used to produce the report on critical examination which is part of the TLC Sub Committee Retreat Report.

  12. PROGRESS ACHIEVED CONT’ • The Sub Committee has also accomplished progress in terms of screening the AS-IS Process to Identify gaps, redundancies, duplication and inefficiencies on the basis of the emerging results, streamlined and rationalized T0-BE Processes have been proposed.

  13. PROGRESS ACHIEVED CONT’ • Allow me to present the examples of Programmes Development to illustrate this point

  14. PROGRESS ACHIEVED CONT’ • Alongside programme development, allow me to present the TO-BE Organogramme of the college Formation process as part of the highlights.

  15. THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION! BUT ARE YOU READY FOR CHANGE?

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