A group called ‘Student Support’ has been formed to raise funds for underprivileged students who fail to pay their tuition and help them complete their education due to financial problems, authorities have confirmed. A group opened a Facebook page to launch its social- media campaign after identifying a few students who were unable to go public […]
Malawi’s youths are and other sexual active groups are finding it difficult to access condoms in some public hospital which puts lives of the youths in danger. The problem has mainly hit some health facilities in Zomba including the main referral Hospital. A visit by Nyasa Times in Zomba health facilities, indicated that youths were […]
President Peter Mutharika has said Malawi government will introduce levy to fund research and infrastructure in higher education. “We will introduce an education levy to fund research and infrastructure in higher education,” said President Mutharika on Wednesday during a graduation ceremony at Chancellor College in Zomba. Mutharika, who is Chancellor of the University of Malawi, said the country […]
President Peter Mutharika officially conferred an honorary Doctor of Philosophy in Management and Leadership (Honorius Cauca) to the country’s gallant retired politician John Tembo amid concerns that the veteran politician did not deserve the accolade. The former Malawi Congress Party president, Tembo received the honorary doctorate during a graduation ceremony at Chancellor College in Zomba. […]
Former opposition chief and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo has been honoured with a prestigious degree of doctor of philosophy in leadership management by University of Malawi (Unima). Tembo, who served as chairperson of University of Malawi Council in the 1970s when MCP was in power and he was regarded as the country’s […]
Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi, became the inaugural winners of the Inter Varsity Debate organized by Centre for Free Market Enterprise (CFME) on Saturday 27 February 2016. Poly saw off Blantyre International University in the final at Chancellor College-Little Theatre in Zomba, in a very hotly contested finale. The debate question […]
The first lady of Malawi, Gertrude Mutharika has been awarded a honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Management from the University of Malawi . Madam Mutharika, a nurse by profession, is portrayed as the loving wife, supporting the father of the nation, President Peter Mutharika. She has been awarded with an honorary doctorate degree […]
Concerned students at Chancellor College, a constituent College of University of Malawi have started an initiative aimed at raising funds to help the needy students, whose family cannot manage to raise tuition fee as well as upkeep allowances for them despite the fact that these helpless students have made it into the corridors of Chilunga. […]
Students Union Leaders from public universities in Malawi on Thursday afternoon delivered a petition to Parliament, demanding adequate funding for the newly established Higher Education Students Grants and Loan Board to enable it include more needy students to access to loans. The Board’s national fiscal budget allocation is currently at K1.5 billion and has released names of […]
University of Malawi (Unima) is facing criticism for being “inconsiderate and unfair” to Zomba taxi operators following a contract the institution has granted to G.G Car Rentals to provide car hire services to the ‘varsity’s Centre for Social Research (CSR). CSR in partnership with the Ministry of Health and ICAP at Columbia University will be […]
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 […]
Malawi’s young innovator in ICT based Innovations, Mixon Faluweki has won an Excellence Award at the ITU Telecom World 2015 in Budapest with his Padoko Charger Creation. Faluweki realised that although only 11% of rural households in his country are connected to the electricity grid, 47% own a bicycle. So he came up with a […]
President Peter Mutharika on Saturday led the nation in celebrations to mark the golden jubilee of the University of Malawi (Unima) at College of Medicine (CoM) Sports Complex in the commercial capital Blantyre. Unima is the country’s first and oldest public university established after independence in 1965. The vision to establish Unima was mooted in […]
Standard Bank has donated K1 million as contribution towards University of Malawi (UNIMA) golden Jubilee celebrations scheduled to take place on Saturday October 10 at Kamuzu stadium. Speaking during cheque presentation at Standard Bank regional office in Blantyre, the Bank’s Head of Investment Banking Shakil Satar said the bank appreciates the contribution that Unima has made in […]
University of Malawi (UNIMA) will launch its flag and anthem during the celebrations marking 50 years of existence October 10, 2015 be held at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre. This has been disclosed by UNIMA’s assistant registrar (Communication and Marketing), Peter Mitunda. Mitunda said in a statement made available to Nyasa Times that five parades by cohorts […]
University of Malawi students are accusing the University Management of “mediocrity of the highest order” by circulating unproductive propaganda in the media, “instead of just announcing a tentative opening date for the Polytechnic.” Representatives of University of Malawi Students Union (UMSU) Council say in a statement issued Tuesday that it is very disheartening to note […]
Students at the Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi, say are sorry over recent demonstrations they organized following disagreement with management on allowance issues which has led to the closure of the institution. President of the Polytechnic Students Union Council (PSU) Jaston Bulaula and General Secretary Rogers Nyirongo, say in a statement […]
A third year student at University of Malawi’s Chancellor College in the eastern city of Zomba, Paul Macheso thinks Malawi has the potential of developing economically through the use of locally available resources as he invents an incubator aimed at improving poultry farming. Macheso has set a record in his career path as a Bachelors […]