The contribution of universities to regional development has in the last few decades gained significant currency. Inter alia, this contribution has been through steered national, regional, and institutional policies aimed at enhancing national development, good governance, human capital creation and innovation in an increasing knowledge-dependent economy, and throu...

Uganda 's higher education sector has grown very rapidly since the 1970s. Enrolment has increased from about 5900 students in 1975 to 58,091 in 2000, a growth of about 1000 per cent. Most of this growth has occurred in the university sector of higher education where 34,513 of the 58,098 tertiary-enrolled students were recorded in December 2000. Universities and tea...