The announcement that was made over the weekend shows that the 2018/19 academic year will start with Students from these two UR branches, studying in Huye.
The development was further confirmed by Mike Karangwa, the Director of Communication at University of Rwanda who told IGIHE that; “All practicing journalists and Day students of Business and Economics will be relocated to Huye, while Evening students will stay at Gikondo.”
The school of Journalism and Communications used to be in Huye District, back in 2011. It was temporally relocated from there to Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) campus before being relocated again to the College of Business and Economics (CBE), Gikondo in 2016.
Paul Mbaraga, a lecturer at University of Rwanda’s School of Journalism and Communication, noted that the impending relocation of the School of Journalism and Communication, to Huye would greatly affect practicing journalists continuous learning programme.
“Most media houses that gave practicing journalists an opportunity to upgrade are established in Kigali,” Mbaraga said, emphasizing that media practitioners would no longer be able to access internship programmes and attachment to these media houses.
He further remarked that agreements that the school had with media houses for capacity building will as well be affected.
“In Huye, we won’t be able to continue the cooperation easily. We can still do it, but it will be expensive for these practicing journalists.”
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Rwanda (UR) in charge of institutional advancement, Dr. Charles Murigande, recently told IGIHE that the relocation would not affect anyone as “there are other great media practitioners in Huye.”
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