[Civsoc-mw] [BwalolaAphunzitsi] Re: [HigherEdMalawi] ‘That we be free from fear’: Thoughts on education and Malawi at 54

[Louis Nthenda]

To some of us, Prof, increases in enrollment is a better solution in terms
of the economies of scale, -  capital costs, running costs, etc. It Isn't
as if the current universities are bursting at the seams with students. In
1970, I was on the staff of Ahmadu Bello University in Northern Nigeria,
founded in 1962, roughly around the same time as UNIMA. ABU had a student
intake of 426 in its year of opening. Today it's web site says it has an
enrollment of 35,000 students. Would a new university in Malawi be a better
solution than using the resources to double or treble Unima's intake and
double or treble the enrollments at each of the other 3 public
universities?  Send some academic administrators to observe how in Africa
some universities can manage such huge student numbers.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 7:09 AM Adamson S. Muula <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:

> Would having more students per university rather than more universities be
> acceptable also? Because this can also be done without increasing the
> number of the existing ones.
>
> adamson
>
> On 7 July 2018 at 03:56, 'Doreen Myrie' via Bwalo la Aphunzitsi <
> bwalo-la-aphunzitsi at googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe it's just me. I've been gone a long time. It seems we need more
>> than the 4 public universities we currently have.
>>
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>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 9:45 PM, Billy Gama
>> <gamabilly34 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you very much Doc for this important information.
>>
>> On Sat, 7 Jul 2018, 03:17 Steve Sharra, <stevesharra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Friday, July 06, 2018
>>
>>
>> http://mlauzi.blogspot.com/2018/07/that-we-be-free-from-fear-thoughts-on.html
>>
>> On 6th July 1964, fifty-four years ago, there were four secondary
>> schools in Malawi, and not a single university. There was Blantyre
>> Secondary School, Zomba Catholic Secondary School, Dedza Secondary
>> School, and Mzuzu Government Secondary School. There were close to
>> 360,000 primary school learners, and the country had between 3 and 4
>> million people. That year, 6,000 Malawians entered secondary school to
>> start Form 1. The University of Malawi was opened exactly three months
>> after independence, on 6th October 1964. Its first intake was 180
>> students (other sources put the figure at 90).
>>
>> Fifty-four years later, there are over 1,400 secondary schools in
>> Malawi and just over 380,000 secondary school students. About 100,000
>> students enter Form 1 each year. There are four public universities
>> with about 20,000 students. The University of Malawi alone has 13,000
>> students. There are more than 28 private universities, accommodating
>> what can be estimated to be close to 20,000 students, although the
>> real number could be less or more than this.
>>
>> full:
>> http://mlauzi.blogspot.com/2018/07/that-we-be-free-from-fear-thoughts-on.html
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