Aston Lukoye
The administrator of Makerere University, academician Barnabas Nawangwe has aforesaid that it’s vital that frontline folks within the building business ar equipped with further skills as on method of up service delivery.
Nawangwe WHO is additionally Associate in Nursing creator by profession created the remarks umpirage the gap of 2 day coaching for Masons and Fundis that was unionised by department of design and Physical designing, school of Engineering style, Art and Technology (CEDAT.
It was aimed toward making awareness among Masons and Fundis on the requirement to share knowledge base, ideas and new ways in which of construction drawing from the analysis experiences within the school.
Nawangwe aforesaid the coaching was timely as a result of Fundis and medico handle most of the development in African country following a construction boon since the Nineties, advising them to find out to understand the drawings that show what must be done on sites and make sure that they’re adhered unless suggested otherwise.
He explained that these teams {of folks|of individuals} were each vital people within the communities though they failed to get the chance to induce trained in technical establishment however rather learnt on job.
Nawangwe urged the faculty and partners to plot suggests that of extending the coaching country wide joined of the {ways|ways that|ways in that} through which the university would transfer information and supply community service in line with objective of being attentive to the requirements of the communities.
The event that was the primary of its kind attracted variety of stakeholders within the building business.
They are: African country Clays Ltd, Hima Cement, Steel and Tube, The National Building Review Board, the National Physical board, Simba Cement and Kansai Plascon Paint.
Speaking at constant event, the Principal CEDAT academician Henry Alinaitwe aforesaid because the university celebrates a hundred years, {the school|the school|the faculty} is functioning towards realising the first objectives of the university that started as a technical college manufacturing technicians.
The director at the board of commercial coaching (DIT) Ministry of Education and Sports Saint Patrick Byakatonda whereas umpirage at the closure of the coaching on Gregorian calendar month eleven 2022 aforesaid the masons and Fundis were product of the self-teaching universities within the communities
“We believe that our students doing courses like design had plenty to find out from the Fundis which this is able to facilitate them redress a number of the challenges they face after they depart to the sphere of labor with no sensible expertise,” he said.
The coaching is that the start within the college’s endeavour to line up a technical skilling and innovations centre at CEDAT with the target of “vocationalising” university education.
