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

Mon Jul 9 17:41:39 CAT 2018

I always think Colege of Medicine has too much infrastructure and support
staff compared to the number of graduates per year. How many doctors do you
graduate per year? 10?

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, 17:11 Adamson S. Muula, <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:

> Dr Nthenda,
>
> If the College of Medicine can have more teachers/lecturers and
> infrastructure, we can increase intake even within the UNIMA. This may be
> the case with the other public universities. We can however not expand
> beyond a certain level. My count last time was that the country has less
> than five human anatomists meaning that all the classrooms that we can have
> will not matter if we have to teach people anatomy. We can fall for second
> rate which we have done often. Breaking up universities need to happen
> sometimes, but for good reasons.
>
> We are in recess now and virtually no undergraduate classes (only
> workshops) are happening. I know faculty also needs to rest- but we may be
> overdoing it. We could have a summer semester may be to increase intake and
> graduation rates.
>
> On 9 July 2018 at 12:00, Louis Nthenda <louisnthenda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>>> Adamson S. Muula PhD, MPH, MBBS, CPH, PGDip (Public Health Ethics),
>>>>> PGDip (Global Health), PGD (Palliative Care)
>>>>> Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
>>>>> University of Malawi, College of Medicine
>>>>> School of Public Health and Family Medicine
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>>> School of Public Health and Family Medicine
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> Adamson S. Muula PhD, MPH, MBBS, CPH, PGDip (Public Health Ethics), PGDip
> (Global Health), PGD (Palliative Care)
> Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
> University of Malawi, College of Medicine
> School of Public Health and Family Medicine
> Department of Public Health
> Chimutu Building Room 850
> Private Bag 360, Chichiri
> Blantyre 3
> Malawi
> Email: amuula at medcol.mw
> Cell: +265 884233486
> Skype address: adamson.sinjanimuula
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