Universities in East Africa could end up benefiting from the salary standoff between Makerere University staff and the Ugandan government, according to media reports.
A Ugandan daily newspaper, New Vision, speculated this week that Makerere staff are receiving overtures from universities in the region looking for staff. It quoted Louis Kakinda, secretary of the Makerere University Academic Staff Association, as saying that many staff have resigned over poor pay.
The article named the University of Kigali, a private institution in Rwanda, as one university courting disgruntled staff. The university last week placed an advertisement in the New Vision for lecturers in several fields, including law, education, finance, management and accounting.
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