Mon, 21 Aug 2017 12:41:51 +0000
….on restructuring and allowing students to write exams
By Aaron Chiyanzo
THE University of Zambia (UNZA) management is still in the dark about the proposed restructuring of the University and how over 8,000 students who have been allowed to write the examination will be financed, vice chancellor Luke Mumba has said.
Professor Mumba said that the University Council had resolved to meet the Minister of Higher Education to discuss the financing modalities following government pronouncements.
He explained that the University had not been engaged on how the restructuring of the University would be rolled out or whether owing students who had been allowed to write examinations would be subsidized.
Prof. Mumba said that UNZA management was still blank, still in the dark with regards to the structuring of the University into five colleges and how all the students who were owing would be financed to sit for their examinations.
He said that all the information regarding the restructuring of the University and owing students being allowed to write the examinations was only getting to him through the media.
Prof. Mumba reiterated that no official documentation had reached his office, explaining how pronouncements by government would be implemented.
“To be honest, with regard to the pronouncement made by government, we do not have any details other than what is in the media, so in that respect I would not say whether we are ready about anything. Maybe with time they will be able to tell us more information, the cost implications and what exactly needs to be done,” he said.
Prof. Mumba pointed out that all the pronouncements by government with regards to the University operations would have cost implications.
He, however, said that what was priority for the University was to resolve the challenges that had suffocated smooth operations at the institution.
Meanwhile, Prof. Mumba expressed happiness that government had resolved to dismantle the debt that had crippled the University.
He said that the pronouncement had at least gratified several individuals and institutions that the University was owing.
