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            166   International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 10(36), Autumn. 2023

            Introduction                              other  nations,  consequently
            The  higher  education  system            leading  to  their  progression
            of  Uganda,  being  primarily             and  the  advancement  of their
            based  on  the  British  system,          respective countries.

            experiences  challenges  that                Furthermore, the prevailing
            make  it  incapable of  meeting           educational framework persists
            the  current  needs  of  its              in  delivering  instruction  in

            citizens;      Including        the       foreign  languages,  neglecting
            disorientation  of  the  current          indigenous linguistic contexts.
            system      from     reality    by        This  sentiment  is  succinctly

            focusing      on     insignificant        encapsulated  in  Nuwagaba's
            foreign  cultural  concepts  and          assertion:  Students  in  higher
            artifacts,      promotion        of       institutions  are  bombarded

            theoretical       learning       as       with  material,  most  of  which
            opposed to practical learning,            is not useful at all, at least in
            the  inability  of  graduates'            terms of helping an individual
            capacity  to  solve  prevailing           to        harness          his/her

            challenges,  and  teaching  an            environment  for  one's benefit
            irreverent curriculum. (Naiga, 2010)      or  the  benefit  of  society.
               Likewise,      a    substantial        (Nuwagaba, 2005)

            number  of  science  students                In  addition,  some  of  the
            have     encountered       limited        higher  education  institutes
            encouragement  to  engage  in             (HEIs)  in  Uganda  are  profit-

            comprehensive research within             oriented  while  students  are
            our  diverse  natural  milieu,            examination-oriented.
            unlike  their  counterparts  in           (Mugagga 2016)
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