School Information

Infrastructure

The School has an administration block which holds offices and lecture rooms, Annex campus for dormitories and both Campuses are enclosed with a perimeter wall / chain link fence with a well-kept compound and bituminized walk-ways.

Field Training;

The field practicum is done from Hoima Regional Referral Hospital and the Health Units within the Bunyoro Sub-Region.

Strengths

  • Strong leadership and management committed to take the school to greater heights.
  • Qualified, highly experienced and committed staff.
  • Decentralized system which facilitates efficient service delivery.
  • Gender mainstreaming and provision of affirmative action
  • Relevant academic programs
  • Good reputation
  • Possibility for physical expansion

Weaknesses

  • Low level of staffing
  • Inadequate use of innovative teaching methodologies
  • Inadequate teaching and learning materials
  • Inadequate transport facilities to cater for the needs of students and staff
  • Weak experience of middle and lower level managers in planning, organizing monitoring and support and evaluation practices.
  • Inadequate infrastructure(office space, lecture rooms, libraries and teaching labalatories0 and absence of accommodation facilities for students
  • Limited space for expansion
  • Limited areas of academic disciplines offered
  • Inadequate allocation, arrangement, maintenance and management of facilities.
  • Gender imbalance
  • Slow adaptation of ICT among senior staff

Opportunities

  • Positive political support for capacity building and educational expansion
  • The school proximity to southern Sudan and DR Congo
  • Accessibility to the National fibre optic backbone
  • High demand for skills education and training
  • Good will from stakeholders
  • The growing need for consultancy services
  • Growing oil and gas investment sector
  • Globalization and rapid technological change
  • Access to modern technologies
  • Availability of introduction of Diploma Training
  • Access to media.

Threats

  • Competition from other Health Training Institutions for students and staff
  • Limited autonomy
  • Policy Dynamism
  • Addiction and weak health consciousness
  • Bureaucratic public procurement system
  • Increasing cost of living
  • Decreasing employment opportunities for graduates
  • Increasing level of poverty especially in the rural areas
  • Rampant disease e.g. HIV and AIDS, Malaria, Hepatitis B that affect the population