President Peter Mutharika has appointed a reconstituted task force to oversee the delinking of College of Medicine, Kamuzu College of Nursing and The Polytechnic from the University of Malawi (Unima). According to a statement made available to Nyasa Times signed by Princiapal Secretary for Industry, Trade and Tourism Cliff Chiunda on behalf of Chief Secretary […]
Frequent closures of constituent colleges of the University of Malawi (Unima) have made students pay dearly as they have missed out as beneficiaries of an HIV and Aids project implemented by Students Christian Organisation of Malawi (Scom). Scom monitoring and evaluation officer Innocent Kachikopa said this in an interview on Friday after presenting the project […]
Standard Bank has unveiled a K120 million multi-year Bursary program for four public universities in Malawi. Each of the four varsities will receive K30 million in tranches split over the next three years. The universities to benefit are University of Malawi, Malawi University of Science & Technology (MUST), Mzuzu University, and Lilongwe University of Agriculture […]
The newly appointed University of Malawi (UNIMA) Council have reached an agreement with academic members of staff who were complaining of a 40 per cent salary disparity with other academic members of staff at the same grade within UNIMA. A single salary scale for academic members of staff, who were lower paid than their colleagues […]
Vice chancellor of the University of Malawi John Kalenga Saka on Friday urged local academicians to develop interest in publishing books so as to mitigate the inadequate of teaching and learning materials facing the univervesities in the country. Saka urged the academicians in Zomba during the launch of the “Phonology of Chichewa “book that has […]
Education experts have hailed President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika for approving the de-linking of the constituent colleges from the University of Malawi (UNIMA), sayung that would resolve long-standing governance and bureaucratic challenges. The development means the four constituent colleges of Unima will sonnet or later become standalone universities. Polytechnic will now merge with College of Accountancy to […]
If this were in the animal kingdom, we would perhaps be talking of a heat period – no need for elaborating. Malawi seems to be going through a heat period of some sort. As I am writing this, news from the University of Malawi suggests that Clerical, Technical and Secretarial (CTS) staff of the institution […]
President Peter Mutharika has appointed a new University of Malawi (Unima) Council with Dr James Maida as chairperson of the board. Mutharika, who is also Unima Chancellor, hired the new Unima Council barely four days after dissolving the previous one in an attempt to bring sanity between the council and academic staff. According to the […]
A deadlock between government and the University of Malawi (Unima) academic staff over salary disparities has been resolved and all Unima constituent colleges will resume normal functions, it has been confirmed. Unima academic staff especially at Chancellor College of Malawi (Chanco) has been on strike for almost seven months now protesting over pay disparity among […]
President Peter Mutharika, who is the Chancellor of the University of Malawi (UNIMA), has dissolved the UNIMA Council with immediate with effect in an attempt to bring sanity between the Council and academic staff of the university. Chancellor College (Chanco) has remained closed for close to seven months after the academic staff demanded harmonisation of […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) lawmaker gave a rare praise to first president of Malawi’s multi-party democracy Bakili Muluzi, saying though he did not see the corridors of University of Malawi but he valued higher education and had a solution when there was academic crisis. Dowa East Member of Parliament, Richard Chimwendo-Banda was adding his voice to the barrage of […]
A Non-Governmental Organisation based at the Dzaleka Refugees Camp in Dowa, There is Hope (TIH), has appealed to government, Chancellor College Student’s Union and the University Council to resolve their differences amicably to enable students go back to classes. Speaking in an interview after a media familiarization tour which brought together journalists from the print […]
I was in my second year at Chancellor College when the institution was closed in March, 1992 following student protests that were precipitated by the fallout from the release of the famous Pastoral Letter by the country’s Catholic bishops. It was another six months before we set foot on campus again. I, therefore, have an […]
Members of Parliament (MPs), mostly from the opposition, took government to task on Tuesday to act with urgency and seriousness and open Chancellor College in eastern city of Zomba, a constituent of the University of Malawi (Unima). The Unima council postponed opening the college on March 20, 2017 for the first semester of the 2016/2017 […]
University of Malawi Medical Students Association (UMMSA) Saturday conducted sensitizations campaigns in Blantyre aimed at informing Malawians about improved health care. UMMSA President, Parth Patel said in an interview they felt duty bound to sensitize people about different organizations that offer health care in the country including information about different diseases. “We have divided ourselves […]
Staff of the three constituent colleges of the University of Malawi (Unima) are to enjoy the fruits of their strike demanding salary adjustment and equality in remuneration of employees on the same grade Unima has given in to their demands. Through Chancellor College Academic Staff Union (Ccasu), academic staff at Chancellor College, the Polytechnic and Kamuzu […]
Maphunziro265, a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) in the country working with college going students, last weekend took their StandOut talks to the University of Malawi’s (Unima) The Polytechnic and the College of Medicine (CoM) for career skills development. StandOut talks were essentially developed to help students in the development of such documents as CVs, cover […]
University of Malawi’s Chancellor College political scientist Boniface Dulani has described as insensitive remarks by President Peter Mutharika that researchers who concluded that only 41 percent of Malawians trust their Head of State. “He is entitled to his opinion. It is insensitive on his part to think the people we talked to are flies. They […]