TSNP VS TUME YA VYUO VIKUU NCHINI (TCU)

TSNP VS TUME YA VYUO VIKUU NCHINI (TCU) HUU NDIO UPOTOSHWAJI WA PR. YUNUS MGAYA KATIBU MKUU WA TUME YA VYUO VIKUU-TCU JUU YA CHUO CHA KIU KUKOSA SIFA. IKUMBUKWE TAR. 11.07.2015 MTANDAO WA WANAFUNZI TANZANIA(TSNP) ULIKUWA NA MKUTANO NA WAANDISHI WA HABARI NA KUITAKA SERIKALI KUKIFUTA CHUO KIKUU CHA KIU KWA KUKOSA SIFA. PR. YUNUS MGAYA AMEPOTOSHA UMA KUPITIA GAZETI LA GUARDIAN LA JUZI KAMA TAARIFA HAPO CHINI INAVYOJIELEZA. Ikumbukwe MTANDAO HUU -TSNP Unanyaraka zinazothibitisha kuwa chuo hiking hakuna sifa. REJEA GAZET LA LEO TANZANIA DAIMA LENYE KICHWA CHA HABARI (TSNP YAKING'ANG'ANIA CHUO KIKUU CHA KIU) TCU embraces KIU over revocation Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) has played down proposal by troubled lawmakers who had called for immediate closure of the Kampala International University (KIU) for allegedly violating operational terms. The concerned lawmakers in Dodoma mid this week proposed for de-registration of universities including KIU, claiming they had been violating registration provisions. But the influential national overseer commission of the universities immediately hit back by accusing the parliamentarians of unfounded whistle blowing, saying they were playing cheap politics out of the Ugandan university whose registration and operational records had been squeaky clean. TCU Executive Secretary Prof. Yunus Mgaya said KIU which has acquired certificate of full registration since September 2012 would not be closed as there were neither legal hitches nor operational and academic flaws prompting to revocation of terms. “Students and their parents, as well as the public in general should first seek the truth from the respective academic organs including TCU before taking actions. Otherwise they will be led astray by the preying power mongering politicians,” lamented the professor. “No student from KIU has ever forwarded complaints to us regarding the university’s failure to run clinical rotation… but our findings have revealed politically motivated sinister motives behind the KIU saga,” the professor said in reference to recent riots by some medical students at the university who protested against lack of clinical rotational-based practical training, among others. He commended the university at the parliamentary spotlight for impressive performance, saying it might soon achieve one the nation’s leading academic status, but decried what he described as “the politically motivated rebellious students for slinging mud on the face of the university.” “After all there were no rioters among students who were eligible for clinical rotation, given the fact that the exercise is limited to students from third year,” said the professor, adding that no medical student is allowed to pursue clinical rotation without prior completion of Basic Sciences in the first and second years at the university. It was further revealed that practical training for basic sciences were usually carried out in well-equipped laboratories at the university campus which is short of a hospital for clinical rotation. But according to TCU, a medical university may go without hospital of its own, if struck agreement with other hospitals for the students to carry out practical training. KIU has reached such agreement with at least five hospitals including Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) in Dar es Salaam and the Coast Region. Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) also confirmed that it is not a must for a university to have a hospital for clinical rotation as long as it has access to facilities in other hospitals. MUHAS Public Relations Officer, Hellen Mtui said that apart from MNH, her college has agreements with other hospitals where medical students undergo practical training. “We use the services of Lugalo Hospital among others. This is because there is no limitation as to the hospitals to be used especially at times when MNH is too occupied to accommodate extra students,” said Ms Mtui. Dr Elly Nkya from the Care and Treatment Services in the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare also echoed both the professor and Ms Mtui, saying there were stages to be passed in the first and second year before a student is entrusted with lives of others as a part of the practical training in third year of the medical studies. Reached for comments, KIU Public Relation Officer Kenneth Uki said students who were keen in demanding clinical rotation belonged to first year, the very ones who boycotted classes after the riot last month. However, he said third year students have just recently started to pursue clinical rotation in various hospitals including Amana in Dar es Salaam, as the first batch of students taking Bachelor of Sciences in Medicines at KIU has just entered its third year. KIU Vice Chancellor Prof. Mohammad Ndaulla said the students in strike were those who did not want to study and knew nothing on mechanism behind clinical rotation. “The absentees are students who attacked their mates in classrooms last month and ordered them to join the riots. But those who understand what clinical rotation is all about are in classes at the moment,” said the VC. KIU has no hospital in the college premises, but it had signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with various hospitals, pending completion of its own facilities at the year-end. SOURCE: GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY