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New Vision (Kampala)
7 July 2008
Posted to the web 8 July 2008
Anthony Bugembe
Kampala
MAKERERE University engineering students will no longer grumble over lack of laboratory equipment to do assignments.
They are beneficiaries of the iLabs project, which involves using online laboratories.
The project is a brain child of the Massachussets Institute of Technology in the US.
"The project has come at an appropriate time. We had suspended laboratory assignments due to lack of equipment," said Ericabu Lugujjo, the head of the electrical engineering department.
He made the remarks at the opening of the ILabs and a conference at Makerere University in Kampala yesterday.
However, the online experiments will not replace those meant to be carried out in physical laboratories, he added.
"They will just compliment the physical experiments."
ICT minister Dr. Ham Mulira noted: "Makerere University has set a precedent that should be emulated by other institutions of higher learning."
The vice-chancellor, Livingstone Luboobi, criticised those who had alleged that the university's education standards had declined. "Makerere is involved in collaborative research with world class universities all over the globe," he said.
Other African universities using ILabs technology are Tanzania's University of Dar-es-Salaam and Nigeria's Obafemi-Alowo University.
Luboobi noted the need to extend the iLabs project to other faculties.
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