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

Mon Jul 9 21:14:41 CAT 2018

How many teaching hours per week for teaching staff? What is the core
business of CoM

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, 21:00 Adamson S. Muula, <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:

> Glad you asked. Teaching faculty is 140.
>
> Graduates: about 90 medical doctors each year
> 30 Medical lab
> 30 physiotherapy
> 30 Pharmacy
> 30 Health Services Management
> 25 BScs for clinical officers
>
> And several postgraduates. How many students can join a surgeon at one
> time in the theatres? Two may be three but not five (too much).
> All the students must do a research project in the penultimate year/
> lecturers needed
> Lectures must do administration/ consultancies/research/get sick/attend
> funerals
>
> The number of staff is therefore not that huge
>
> On 9 July 2018 at 17:41, Keyboard Boyd Kilembey <kkilembe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>>>> Department of Public Health
>>>>>>> Chimutu Building Room 850
>>>>>>> Private Bag 360, Chichiri
>>>>>>> Blantyre 3
>>>>>>> Malawi
>>>>>>> Email: amuula at medcol.mw
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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
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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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> 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
> Publications list: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Muula
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