UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI COUNCIL SPARKS CONTROVERSY BY HALTING COLLEGE SPIN-OFF PLAN
February 1st, 2021
A University of Malawi (UNIMA) Council’s decision to suspend a planned delinking of the university’s constituent colleges into independent universities has generated fears that the plan - hatched over six years ago - will ultimately be frustrated. After a consultative process President Lazarus Chakwera, last November, last year had given assent to a final bill on the delinking of UNIMA. There are three pieces of legislation, one allowing the university to be split; another authorising the university’s College of Medicine and Kamuzu College of Nursing to ...
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