Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President Dr Lazarous Chakwera has called for more funding in public universities and an increase for education facilities. Speaking Thursday during a public lecture at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bunda Campus, Chakwera said it is very pathetic to see that the universities have the same infrastructures which were built many years […]
University of Malawi’s (UNIMA) constituent college Chancellor College has withdrawn a record 116 students on poor performance grounds after failing to satisfy university standards. The withdrawal of the students comes two weeks after another Malawian university the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, formerly Bunda College of Agriculture under the UNIMA, also announced the […]
University of Malawi (Unima) has a new Vice Chancellor. He is Professor John Kalenga Saka. Professor Saka replaces Emmanuel Fabiano whose next move was not immediately established Wednesday. Social media was awash with Professor Saka’s new appointment and former Chancellor College Academic Staff Union (Ccasu) president Sunduzwayo Madise confirmed the appointment in his posting on the […]
Fresh calls have come from the University Council asking University of Malawi’s (UNIMA) Chancellor College Senior Lecturer, Dr. Jessie Kabwila to resign following her appointment as Publicity Secretary for the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP). University Council spokesperson Akuzike Maliwichi said University employees are not allowed to practise active politics because doing so amounts to […]
The Chancellor College Academic Staff Union (CCASU) has described the tabling of the University Act as a way by some evil minded people to suffocate the university, saying the Bill was a former ruling DPP project meant to weaken the university and subject it to controls unheard of in the history of the university. CCASU […]
Malawi government authorities have bowed down to demands by the lecturers at the University of Malawi (UNIMA) who have been boycotting classes due to low pay a development that had forced government to shift opening of the country’s institutions of higher learning. Ministry of Education Spokesperson Rebecca Phwitiko says the government has agreed to raise […]
Pressure is mounting on University of Malawi’s (UNIMA) Chancellor College Senior Lecturer, Dr. Jessie Kabwila to resign following her joining of frontline politics. The vocal lecturer and human rights activist was appointed publicity secretary in the new National Executive Committee (NEC) of the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) announced by the party’s President Dr […]
Polytechnic students of the University of Malawi (Unima) have expressed dismay with the prolonged delay in opening the college, threatening unspecified action should the powers-that-be remain stock-still on the matter. Nyasa Times reported last week that Unima constituent colleges – Chancellor College and the Polytechnic – had failed to open for the 2013/2014 academic year due […]
Chancellor College of the University of Malawi in the eastern city of Zomba has failed to open for the 2013/14 academic year for unspecified reasons. The college was supposed to open this month but it has communicated to its students that it will not open. “Chancellor College wishes to inform all its continuing and first […]
Male students occupying Khondowe and Chilembwe Hostels at Chancellor College in Zomba, a constituent college of the University of Malawi have refused to bulge to management’s decision of having them relocated to other hostels at the campus to pave way for female students in the next academic year. According to a communication from the office […]
Students at the Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi are threatening to resume protests should government fail to address an issue in which they are pushing for an increment on their upkeep allowance. This is despite the signing of the forms which the education authorities forced them to sign as a condition […]
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The University of Malawi (UNIMA) has long been associated with academic excellence and all the positives associated with higher education. Almost certainly, all the good about it can be said to be a glorious past perhaps never to be re-lived again. This is so if infamous events as the eight month old academic freedom saga, […]
Malawi government has disclosed that it will rationalise loans and introduce targeted scholarships in the public universities to as cost-sharing to ensure that higher education is accessible by students from poor families. Minister of Education, Science and Technology Eunice Kazembe told Parliament in her statement on the situation of University of Malawi’s colleges, Chanco and Poly. […]
University of Malawi (Unima) has advertised for the position of Vice Chancellor in the local media. The move follows the University Council’s decision permitting the search process to begin. According to the advert in the press issued by the Registrar of Unima, the academic office in Zomba said the position currently held by Dr Emmanuel […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has condemned government’s plans to export 100, 000 youths to work in South Korea, saying the Joyce Banda administration’s is offering “false promises” to end unemployment and ease on poverty. MCP spokesperson on finance in Parliament Joseph Njobvuyalema said this when he was responding to the 2013/14 budget statement that was […]
The High Court in Blantyre on Friday vacated the injunction obtained by Chancellor College and Polytechnic students against the closure of the two colleges and ordered the students to vacate the campuses by 4:00pm on Saturday May 25th, 2013. Students from the two colleges want the injunction they obtained restraining the authorities to close the two […]
Students Union of Chancellor College (SUCC) has dismissed claims that the students on Sunday afternoon voted against their sit-in currently going on at their campus in Zomba. In an interview with Nyasa Times on Monday, SUCC president Israel Masiyano said the students who voted on Sunday did not form a quorum as stipulated in the […]