Waswa Balunywa

Juma Waswa Balunywa (born 3 December 1955) is a Ugandan economist, financier, philanthropist, and academic. He served as Principal of Makerere University Business School from 1991-2023. Balunywa has been credited with spearheading the private students' scheme in Uganda that has become a model for many universities across the country and region.Balunywa is the founder of the Balunywa Foundation, which is based in Iganga District, whose aim is to ensure the community around Iganga has better living standards through education.Balunywa built the AKB Memorial hospital in Iganga District. Quotes I think you can no longer challenge Makerere. Makerere is like Windows. Everybody with a computer, it is run by windows. pricelessness of Makerere must be leveraged to move not only Makerere ahead but higher education and the entire education system in this country. Makerere has this capacity. It needs to be a bit innovative and more free. I was allocated the Department of Commerce where I taught for some time until 1987 when I was appointed to head the Department of Accounting, Banking and Finance and effectively became Senior Lecturer. There was no room for innovations. Our ideas of taking the university to a higher level were ignored. The way Makerere was being run did not motivate some of us. So I decided to act. This is regrettable. MUBS does not have a culture of strike because of the problem solving approach to most of the issues. This approach demands that we listen to students, identify problems and solve them together. I would want the government to get rid of vocational institutions. When you fail to go to senior one you go to vocational, when you fail to go senior five you go to vocational, when you fail to go to university you go to vocational – so psychologically we are saying we go there only when we fail. you should do technical drawing and agriculture and carpentry as you study the main stream subjects other than saying, ‘when you fail here you go there.’ Yes, if we can restructure that, this country would be different. External links