MDP Team begins work in Uganda (Blog)

We are pursuing a cost-benefit analysis study on a school expansion project to find out if a University can be founded on the values of Lira Integrated School (http://www.enterprise.co.ug/archives/Beatrice.Ayuru.wins.pdf).

We have the pleasure to announce that Team Uganda is off with a great start to their project! We started with a meeting at 7 am with the Principal of the School of Veterinary Science at Makarere University, who gave us some great insight on the approaches we can take to this education project. We then went to Kyambogo University where Alejandra had a contact that happens to be a U of M graduate (yay!). The Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs was delighted to have us and provided some practical advice on the process of starting a university from nothing; he was quite nostalgic of Minnesota and the U.S. after a short break we went to Uganda Christ University, which is a private institution about 45 mn outside of town.

More understanding was provided essentially about how to design the curriculum to make it more appealing and relevant to targeted students. We then had a meeting with a development consultant, author, entrepreneur and economist about fish farming and education innovation.

-- Alejandra, Babina, Gilles, and Chris.  

Follow the MDP field experience in Uganda at http://mdpinlira.blogspot.com/