After months of thorough scrutiny, construction of a new campus and anxiety from students, parents and professors, the National Council of Higher Education has finally accredited Blantyre International University (BIU). The National Council for Higher Education Act mandates NCHE to regulate tertiary education institutions in Malawi. The council says the decision to accredit BIU was […]
Blantyre International University (BIU) one of the privately owned institutions of higher learning in the country has taken strides in implementing the improvement plan by the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) in order to be re-accredited. This was disclosed last Friday during the seventh graduation ceremony of BIU where over 300 students graduated from […]
Students at Blantyre International University (BIU) have agreed to boycott classes for two weeks following the college’s failure to adhere to conditions of accreditation from the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE). The students arrived at the decision after a meeting they had on Tuesday with the university’s Dean of Students. According to a letter […]
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 […]
Center for Free Market Enterprise organized an Inter- University Debate aimed at helping university students to come up with solutions to some of the problems the country is currently facing. The first debate took place on Friday 23 October 2015 at Catholic University of Malawi Campus in Nguludi, Chiladzulu. Speaking after the first debate CFME […]
A Blantyre International University fourth year Information Technology student lost his life last Saturday at an upmarket lodge in Blantyre after drowning in a swimming pool. The student Richard Mdachi who went to the lodge with 6 of.his friends to celebrate his 22nd birthday met his fate in very strange circumstances. Mdachi who was a […]
One of the country’s leading mobile telecommunication service providers Airtel Malawi, on Tuesday donated 30 zte tablets to the Blantyre International University (SDI), Mpemba Staff Development Institute (SDI) and the National College for Information Technology (NACIT). Making the donation in Blantyre, Airtel Malawi’s IT Business Relationship Manager Chinga Chaguluka said innovative use of ICT stands […]
Blantyre International University, one of the privately owned institutions of high learning in the country on Thursday added 208 more people on the job market. Speaking during the graduation ceremony, held at COMESA hall in Blantyre, Director of Inspection and Education Advisory Service (IEAS) in the Ministry of Education Dr Raphael Agabu commended private colleges […]
Seven students from the Malawi’s privately owned Blantyre International University (BIU) have been arrested following protests over the recent increase on tuition fees at the school which has been raised from K200, 000 per semester to K260, 000. School officials told Nyasa Times that the police had to use teargas canisters to disperse the rioting […]
A college girl studying at Blantyre International University (BIU) was sexually assaulted by a gang of men armed with panga knives who are on the run, according to police. The 20 year old Namiwawa-based girl (name withheld) was attacked on August 4 The girl, a business administration student, met her fate on the wee hours […]