Some members of the Polytechnic Alumni have started meeting to strategize on raising funds for rehabilitating infrastructure at the constituent college of the University of Malawi. The first meeting took place at Ryalls Hotel in Blantyre on Monday evening where In attendance were the Vice Principal Dr Nancy Chitera, Registrar Margaret Longwe, The Students Union […]
A team of medical laboratory sciences graduates from the University of Malawi (Unima) are facing dire unemployment hurdles, with some still gallivanting in the streets eleven months after getting their honours degrees. Nyasa Times has established that the Ministry of Health (MoH) has no posts for the graduates at a time when countries world over […]
Chancellor College (Chanco), a constituent college of the University of Malawi, Friday held elections which ushered in a new executive that is going to man the Students Union of Chancellor College (SUCC) in the next year. Frank Chidampamba and Ellen Grace were elected president and vice president respectively in the elections described as “highly contested.” Chidampamba told […]
Students from Chancellor College in eastern city of Zomba have started their own clothing brand Usolva Clothing Inc., an innovative initiative coming from the constituent college of the University of Malawi. According to the co-founder, Otiyela Mtema, who is an economics student at the college, Malawi seems to be excessively and unnecessarily dependent on importing […]
The University of Malawi (Unima) will in September this year have its Golden Jubilee celebrations. To that effect and prior to its main celebration, Unima has lined up several activities that would be part of the celebration. One such activity is a tree planting exercise that will take place at the University Office on February […]
The students of the University of Malawi resumed classes on Monday, 6 weeks after the college was closed following a pay strike by its academic staff. “The colleges opened today,” said Jacob Jimu, a journalism lecturer. In a statement, the university confirmed that the Chancellor College and The Polytechnic, the two constituent colleges of the […]
CHANCELLOR COLLEGE FACULTY OF LAW DIPLOMA IN LAW PROGRAMME 2014/15 Enrolment into the Diploma in Law Programme The Faculty of Law at Chancellor College is pleased to inform the following that they have been admitted into the first year of the Diploma in Law Programme: 1. Amosi Gloria F 2. Baluti McDonald M 3. Banda Lloyd […]
Spare a thought for students in the University of Malawi who were supposed to graduate in 2014 but they are still in college courtesy of the 2011 ‘academic freedom’ impasse. Such students are spending a fifth year in college on their four-year degree programme. With this latest university impasse such students will add another year […]
Innovation is happening across Africa, in all different sectors, from education to energy, banking to agriculture and in television broadcasting. In Malawi, a university student has created a community TV station called “analog TV project” one that he hopes will transmit all social events taking place on campus. Chisomo Daka is a student at the University […]
The Japanese used car dealer Be Forward continues its streak of funding various projects in Malawi. Besides sponsoring Mighty Wanderers football club, the company has showed its corporate responsibility gesture at Chancellor College of the University of Malawi, when it funded the Students Union (UMSU) Festival. Celebrated under the theme “UMSU Activism for Reproductive Health Awareness: Engaging the Malawian Youth […]
Students of the University of Malawi are threatening to hold demonstrations if authorities will not meet their demands by January 5. Their demand includes the immediate reopening of the Polytechnic, Chancellor College and College of Medicine, and the increment on their upkeep allowance which currently stands at about MK32, 000 per month. In a statement the […]
A constituent college of the University of Malawi, Chancellor College (Chanco) in the eastern city of Zomba has been abruptly closed due to strike academic and support staff. Support staff at Chanco are withdrawing labour to force government to increase their perks. Unima support staff, through the University Workers Trade Union (UWTU), are demanding not […]
Management of the College of Medicine, a constituent of the University of Malawi (Unima), has indefinitely closed for “instability” students caused at their Blantyre campus. The students went on rampage following management’s decision last week that the students be paid their meal allowances based on a pro-rata basis. Pro-rata is a system that provides that […]
Students at the University of Malawi (Unima) are likely to face academic disruption as the support staff at Unima, which comprises Chancellor College, the Polytechnic and College of Medicine on Thursday started strike aimed at forcing government to give them 45 percent salary increase. Lower-paid employees, such as administration staff, security guards and library assistants […]
University of Malawi Workers Union have threatened to strike, demanding pay rise. Unima support staff, through the University Workers Trade Union (UWTU), are demanding not less than 45 percent or up to 75 percent salary increment the 25 percent being offered by the government. It is also understood that academic members of staff will embark […]
Upkeep allowances, disbursed monthly to all government sponsored students in the country’s public universities, have been recipe for all sorts of mayhem since they were introduced. Because of them, students have found enough reasons to insult innocent passersby and barricade innocent motorists on the country’s roads, to mention just but a few problems. Introduced not […]
A University of Malawi graduate, Norbert Nthara, beat six other fellow young scholars from some SADC countries in interviews South Africa scholarships administered under Rhodes University. The Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia and Swaziland (BLMNS) region carries out interviews for finalist to study to earn scholarship. Nerbert, who graduated with a BSc IT, Distinction (2014) at […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has been installed University of Malawi (Unima) Chancellor at a ceremony held at the Great Hall, Chancellor College in Zomba during the 60th congregation of Unima. Mutharika is the fifth chancellor after founding Head of State the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Bakili Muluzi, the late Bingu wa Mutharika and Joyce Banda […]