Bhendril Hopio 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬

During a high-level strategic meeting with Lira University, the STI Secretariat team and I made commitments and presented proposals to ensure that the university keeps pace with a rapidly changing world. I urged the university to prepare for students coming through the competency-based curriculum. They are coming with the ability to reason, question and apply knowledge. If universities remain basic in their approach, Darwin’s theory of natural selection will take its course: those that adapt will thrive, while those that fail to evolve risk becoming irrelevant. “If prisoners can generate income for a prison, why can’t students generate income for their university?” Our universities must turn knowledge and skills into practical solutions, products and enterprises that generate income and create jobs. When you see President Trump scrapping some initiatives, introducing others and issuing far-reaching directives to ensure America is not left behind, who are we to remain comfortable at such a defining moment in world history? We must rethink how we teach, conduct research and translate innovation into wealth.