Government anticipates that non-teaching staff at the public universities will call off their strike and return to work by Thursday this week.

Janet Kataha Museveni, the minister of education and sports, while addressing parliament on Tuesday August 09, 2016 said that one of the demands the of non-teaching staff was for government not to use part of their increment to fund  the new universities.

She said the government has decided to comply with by looking for new alternatives to fund Soroti Lira and Kabale universities.

Some of Makerere University’s non-teaching staff in a recent meeting.

Museveni also assured Parliament that government has started a process to harmonize all salary structure in all public universities by the second quarter taking into account their qualifications as it was requested by the non-teaching staff.

However, this didn’t amuse some of the members of parliament who demanded for the minister to explain where she is going to get the money to fund for the three universities at the same time pay for the arrears of non-teaching staff in all public universities.

State minister for planning, David Bahati informed parliament that government plans to request for a supplementary budget to fund the salaries as they have a provision in the law which allows them to take a surplus of three percent of the national budget.