Blantyre International University students get High Court injunction against NCHE
Blantyre International University (BIU) Students Union has obtained a High Court injunction that is restraining the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) and BIU from interfering with programmes the university is offering until the courts make a further order, Nyasa Times has learned.
BIU students went to seek court relief after NCHE announced its decision not to accredit the university, citing an unsatisfactory teaching and learning environment.
NCHE said the institution’s programmes required reviewing to ensure comparability with similar programmes nationally and internationally.
But BIU students engaged ptivate-practise lawyer Yasin Domasi has since to seek a court injunction.
The terms of the injunction granted on December 28 2016 obtained from the High Court in Blantyre say: “The BIU should continue teaching all the suspended programmes.”
The High Court has also ordered NCHE not to interfere with the process by deregistering, publishing or announcing that the programmes are not accredited until a further notice of the court.
The three parties are to appear in court for hearing on January 9 2017, sccording to the injunction.
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Malawian private colleges receive everyone who has a fat wallet even if their brain is not well folded. People with 9 points in English and Mathematics are enrolled and then graduate and compete for job places with cream dela cream from UNIMA. And because their corrupt fathers are at the helms of many big organisations they are employed and contribute nothing
He who brought the idea of obtaining an injunction against NCHE might be a very useless person who does not love this country. How could someone be fighting for a half baked education? Our friends in other countries such as Tanzania selection into university whether publiv or private is done by a government agency to ensure quality. My God where is Malawi going? Naonso ma injunction kumangoflasha paliponse. Former Germany ambassador was right to say Malawi is the most litigous country in Africa. Shame ….
I think the HCHE can easily challenge this injunction. Please engage a lawyer to challenge this useless senseless and baseless injunction. I agree that the students should ask the BIU management to work out on the recommendation of NCHE rather that go to court for an inunction
If you persist and go on to learn substandard materials who will employ you?may be only your uncles and aunts in your villages
if NCHE is going to accredit university of Malawi, Chancellor College, then I will know that NCHE is only targeting private institutions. The learning and teaching environment at Chancellor College is worse than those of some colleges NCHE has refused to accredit. Students learn while standing even standing outside. Some Lecturers miss their classes to go and teach at the colleges you have refused to accredit. Infact it is lecturers from POLY and CHANCO who teach at BIU. Some of them have even contributed to the develpment of programmes at BIU. If there were any short falls NCHE could have talked to the concerned institution. Accreditation is a process. When are you visting UNINA colleges, especially CHANCO. that is where your credibility will be tested.
I can only recognise Journalism as the best course that BIU offers but not courses like Law.I have personal respect for journalists who went through BIU.Its even recognized by UN
Shaaah wht a dull bunch of so called university students! Kkkkk. One message to u is; no one will employ u as graduates. U are wasting ur money and time.
Ada Manda if it is true that there are foreign students at BIU then this incident is shameful to our country and educational system.
Malawians cannot leave BIU alone because this is a national interest issue to make sure that universities both public and private produces quality graduates who are key for development.
Hey BIU students!!! You should have taken BIU to task to work on the recommendations rather than fighting NCHE through the courts! With your backing, the University is likely to sit back; wont work on the shortfalls as pointed out by NCHE.
poor students what benefit will you have if you get unaccredited degree in your own country let alone outside. no wonder you don’t match with your friends from public universities. you are very sick, your parents must concerned with your mental capacity, shame on you students why do you defend your management instead of putting pressure on them?
I have read the comments for Chikopa and you have been so emotional in your comments but you are forgetting one thing that is “which employer will employ you with the half baked qualification that has survived through injunction for you to graduate? Are you going to get an injunction against employers or prospective employers? Let me tell you law graduates from BIU are now enrolling for a Diploma in law at chanco instead of going for a masters. What is that? And someone in the name of NCHE is coming in to help you get better education and you feel NCHE is an enemy to you? Let us face realuty and take management of BIU to task.
I think there is someone who is misleading you that public universities are teaching outdated courses because you have not been there yourself. Ask us and we will tell you.
I myself have respect for both public and private universities so long as they have satisfied the regulatory bodies that they are offering quality education for the development of our country.
There are other private universities out there such as Cunima, Unilia, Adventist University etc we respect them and BIU will earn the same respect once it brings sanity to the education circles.
So my simple advice attacking NCHE or public universities will not help you or else you will end up graduating with worthless degree which will have no place in the world of employment.
Leave BIU students alone,enanu zakukhuzani bwaa,Malawi can not only run by public universities no,ndiumbuli umeneo.Time has changed, and change is inevitable. Some students might not necessarily be working in Malawi and other students are from outside Malawi studying here,hence foreign exchange inflow. Let sobriety prevail here and not envy.Ada Manda.
I find most comments made here to be unfortunate and coming from stupid
people who think that only public universities are areas of higher education.
The students are exercising their rights and must be respected. Look here,
CHANCO and POLY refused to be assessed and College of Medicine allowed
to be assessed as ended up being accredited with conditions. Conditional
Approval is totally different from full approval as the former is contingent.
NCHE had been publishing in the newspapers and on its website all long that
BIU is an accredited institution of higher learning and a lot of students enrolled
based on that confirmation. Why then just wake up and start puking garbage?
What are the shortcomings of the programmes? Did NCHE give the institution
any warnings? Has anyone have evidence that BIU Graduates are the worst in
the economy? So BIU Students have the right to know these issues.
If you do not belong to BIU and you have nothing to do with it just keep your
fucken mouth shut. Courts are referees and will hear both sides. It would have
been better if NCHE had given BIU a chance to explain itself rather than
publishing no-sense in the papers and who knows their heads might roll for
being incompetent and inconsiderate to the thousands of Malawians wishing to
acquire latest knowledge and not what public universities offer which is outdated
and irrelevant.
So long.
Fuck!who doesn’t know that those who go these private universities are dumb or mbuli?Dumb from primary school,to secondary school and that’s y they cant withstand the competition with the brains that go to public universities,solution to these dumb students from primary school are these universities BIU representing.
for nche to do there findings they undergo regolas evaluation of the so called universities so respect nche recomendations for beterment of education in malawi
“It is like somebody eating half baked nsima and somebody comes in to say “THAT NSIMA IS NOT WELL COOKED, STOP EATING”.
The one eating nsima goes to court to obtain an injunction so that he continues eating the half cooked nsima.”
Well said Mwakipiki. It seams these students have run out of ideas. They will lose this case. I am here ngulya indilolo musakunyagha.
Please BIU students take to task BIU management so that they meet the standards required.
Why do we have courts in Malawi. They just grant injunctions for every case without looking at significance of the case to the wellbeing of pple of Malawi. Our judicial system is very dull
HAHAHA WHAT A DULL BUNCH OF STUDENTS IN A DULL SO CALLED UNIVERSITY KKKKKK. SO A DOCTOR SAYS STOP THAT OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICATION, IT’S POISONING U;U FIGHT THE DOC?
This is what dull students who go to university with 42 points can do in support of poor quality education , ha! ha! ha!
This case is like someone is eating not -well – cooked nsima and when somebody says stop eating that until it is well cocked, the one eating jumps up to defend the not-so-well-cooked nsima. Come on! This is for the betterment of this country. Let NCHE do its work to ensure sanity in the higher education sector.
I am an advocate of greater access to education. But quality is important much as is quantity.
very unfortunate conductbbu students. Common sence palibe kwa akachenjefewa.Leave NCHE alone.
The reason for NCHE not to accredit the instituion is clear “unsatisfactory teaching and learning environment”.
Obtaining an injuction on this is very unfortunate. Granting it is also undermining the authority of NCHE to ensure
value for money for the academic programs offered by such instituions. No wonder we hear of people that
do not have diplomas let alone first degrees claiming to have passed with distinctioins at Masters degree
and others boasting to have done and confered with Philosophy of Doctorate (PhD) degrees, through such makeshifts
academic programs and institutions. Lets respect the findings and recommendations of NCHE, but also
let these respectable arms of government, NCHE and the courts, talk to each other rather than one showing
superiority over the other, its so embarrasing. NCHE can you please instruct your lawyers to go and vacate
the injuction that the so called BIU stupid students have obtained.
This is stupid. NCHE should not bow to compromise quality of education
Golden Chizimba it was wise to leave NCHE
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Kikikikikiki. This is laughable. Who will employ you with programmes that survive on court injunctions? You should have dealt with your management to improve the programmes to meet the requirements. You are dull students indeed.
Fucken students so you want to be half baked graduates