In Al Jazeera, Calestous Juma revisits a theme he has covered before:
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African universities will become irrelevant if they don't focus on the role of science and engineering in development.In a resounding attack on his country's higher educational system, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has dismissed arts courses as useless. He said it was "unfortunate that many universities continue teaching very useless courses at degree level rendering their graduates jobless after graduation."
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