Students using the newly constructed Central Teaching Facilities in Makerere University will write on their laps untill next year, when the writing tables will be procured.

The University's publicist, Rita Namisango says no major changes will take place in the facilities until next year when they are officially handed over to the University. Reports inidcate that the buildings are still under the Ministry of Education. 

"The plastic chairs are a temporary measure as they await the provision of the equipment from the firm that was contracted by the Government of Uganda to supply and install furniture in all the Central Teaching Facilities in all public universities, and this is expected next year," she said.

She further said that students will have to be patient and bear with the situation until proper seats are installed in the buildings.

This comes after several complaints from the students' body over the kind and quality of seats provided by the university to facilitate smoothing learning.

The students from College of Humanities and Social Sciences who have their lectures from the Central Teaching Facility 1  face a hard time with studies using plastic chairs with no writing tables since they have to write on their laps, in a premier university like Makerere.

"Writing on my laps has marked my first challenge in Makerere University. It has made my work so hard in that writing fast can never happen," says Haula Nayiga, a first year student of Bachelor of Social Sciences.

"This is new, lecturers dictate at a high speed yet you don't have anywhere to write from. You end up without noting anything." Complained Atwijukye Asaph, a first year student of Development studies.

Asked about this situation, student leaders promised to work hand in hand with lectures to facilitate smooth learning for freshmen at the university.

"We shall coordinate with their class representatives and see how we can urge lecturers to reconsider their teaching pace to see that everyone benefits," Lubanga Elvis, GRC School of Languages, Literature and Communication said.