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

Mon Jul 9 12:00:18 CAT 2018

That's fascinating, Prof.
Can you share with us your observations?

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 2:52 PM Adamson S. Muula <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:

> I just came back yesterday from a visit to the University of Ibadan and
> University of Benin in Nigeria! Massive enterprises.
>
> On 9 July 2018 at 01:01, Louis Nthenda <louisnthenda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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