Malawi’s Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Bright Msaka, has thrown down a bold challenge to the country’s universities, demanding they step up and help mobilise desperately needed foreign exchange through their teaching and other services. Speaking during the signing ceremony of public sector reform commitments with academic institutions in Blantyre, the minister openly questioned […]
Rumphi Central MP (UTM Party) Dr Matthews Mtumbuka has urged Malawi university students to treat failure not as something to fear but as an integral part of the path to success, drawing on his own winding journey from a rural upbringing to Oxford and eventually Parliament. Speaking on Sunday at a gathering of the National […]
The University of Malawi (UNIMA) says it is investigating reports that a third-year student left a note expressing suicidal thoughts, reportedly linked to financial difficulties and academic pressure.
Professor Zimani David Kadzamira, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malawi and brother of Cecilia Kadzamira, the long-serving official hostess to President Hastings Kamuzu Banda, has died. His passing closes the chapter on a career that spanned academia, diplomacy and public service, and which, over more than four decades, came to be defined as much […]
The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) has announced a new partnership with the University of Malawi to provide fully-paid scholarships to 30 girls to study law, alongside a fellowship programme for early-career lawyers working on the rights of women and children who are victims of violence. The announcement was made in Zomba on September 15, […]
Student leaders from across Malawi’s public universities have formed an unprecedented unified coalition to negotiate directly with government over proposed hikes to higher education tuition fees, as resistance mounts nationwide against the controversial policy. The joint effort, spearheaded by student leader Yatuta Edwell Mulungu, saw Students’ Representative Council (SRC) presidents and general secretaries from institutions […]
Police in Zomba are investigating the death of Mary Hamba Nyirenda, an assistant lecturer at the University of Malawi, who was found dead at her home in the Zakazaka area of Zomba city on the evening of 19 July. According to Constable Andrew Mwale, deputy public relations officer for Zomba police station, preliminary investigations show […]
Government, through the Ministry of Education, has finally set 4 May 2021 as date when the colleges under the University of Malawi (Unima) will be officially delinked. Capital Hill has since appointed a new steering committee to complete the delinking process and operationalization of the new universities. The steering committee comprises Committe Professor Emmanuel Kaunda […]
The High Court of Malawi has refused to grant an application for interlocutory injunction to Chancellor College (Chanco) students who are protesting the decision by the Council of the University of Malawi to hold a virtual graduation. The Council recently announced that it would hold a virtual graduation in compliance with restrictions for preventing the […]
Insurance giant United General Insurance (UGI) Friday donated K10 million to the University of Malawi (UNIMA) and its constituent colleges to help in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Presenting the donation in Blantyre, UGI Chief Executive Officer Bywell Blair Chiwoni said since the first registered case of the novel coronavirus in the country in […]
The Malawi government will proceed to delink the University of Malawi (Unima) into three universities, a statement from the Office of the Vice President has said eventually pushing to the drain an argument from the Council of the University that the process was legally flawed. In the statement signed by Vice President Saulos Chilima’s spokesperson […]
Vice President Saulos Chilima has intervened in a matter the University of Malawi council decided to delay the delinking process of the University of Malawi colleges. Some Malawians expressed concern over the decision by the council after parliament approved the delinking process for efficiency and effectiveness of public universities. On Tuesday morning in Lilongwe, Chilima […]
In a letter to Minister of Education and copied to President Lazarus Chakwera, Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC) has asked government to gazette and implement commencement of new universities to be born out of the 1965 University of Malawi. The letter comes as hard pressure on President Chakwera who wanted to reverse the delinking of […]
Education activists have asked the University of Malawi (Unima) Council to reverse its decision of “cancelling” the delinking of UNIMA’s four constituent colleges, saying the council acted illegally. Civil Society Education Coalition (Csec) executive director Benedicto Kondowe actually fully supports the delinking, saying it leverages Malawi’s potential to utilize her universities to the best of their capacity […]
An outspoken South Africa-based law professor has bashed the University of Malawi (Unima) council for stopping the delinking of university colleges, saying Unima has acted unlawfully. Professor Danwood Chirwa says the Unima council chairperson professor Jack Wirima for acting in self interest. “Wirima seems to have managed to mislead other members of UNIMA council to […]
In a very surprising and dramatic move, the University of Malawi (Unima) Council has stopped the process of delinking it’s constituent colleges. In a statement signed by deputy University Registrar Ashanie Gawa and addressed to principals of the constituent colleges, Shawa says the council held an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday January 20, where it was […]
It was a moment of pride and nostalgia for President Lazarus Chakwera who returned to Chancellor College in the Eastern city of Zomba where he was among its first graduates but this time around, he was being installed as Chancellor of the University of Malawi (Unima.) Chakwera is an alumnus of Unima after he graduated […]
Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima has asked public universities and other institutions of higher learning to borrow a leaf from the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), which is working hard to broaden its sources of income. Chilima reiterated that the government’s resource envelope is quite tiny; hence, the need for the public […]