Eduardo Mondlane University

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Eduardo Mondlane University
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane - UEM
founding 1962, 1968 university
Sponsorship state
place Maputo
country MozambiqueMozambique Mozambique
Rector Orlando António Quilambo
Students 11,600 (2011-2012)
Employee 1,200 (2011-2012)
Networks FUIW , IAU
Website www.uem.mz

The Eduardo Mondlane University ( Portuguese Universidade Eduardo Mondlane - UEM ) is the oldest university in Mozambique and is based in Maputo .

history

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, 2009

The forerunner to the UEM was founded in 1962 by the Portuguese colonial power in Maputo (then Lourenço Marques ). Her then name was Estudos Gerais Universitários de Moçambique . In 1968 it was renamed Universidade de Lourenço Marques .

After Mozambique gained independence in 1975, a year later it was named after the former leader of the rebel movement Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO), Eduardo Mondlane (1920–1969). In the founding year, the Center for African Studies was set up , headed by Aquino de Bragança until his death.

In 1982, on August 17, the scientist Ruth First was killed by a letter bomb by South African police officers within the university campus in the Centro de Estudos Africanos . This crime was cleared up in public during hearings before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission in June 2000.

António Quilambo has been the rector of the university since April 28, 2011; his predecessor was Padre Filipe Couto.

Faculties

Today around 27,000 students attend the UEM. The university currently has ten faculties:

  • Faculdade de Agronomia e Engenharia Florestal (Agriculture and Forestry)
  • Faculdade de Arquitectura (architecture)
  • Faculdade de Ciências (Natural Sciences)
  • Faculdade de Direito (Law)
  • Faculdade de Economia (Economics)
  • Faculdade de Educação (Pedagogy)
  • Faculdade de Engenharia (engineering science)
  • Faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais (Philosophy and Social Sciences)
  • Faculdade de Medicina (medicine)
  • Faculdade de Veterinária (Veterinary Medicine)

Cultural institutions of the university

The University's Department of Culture (Direcção de Cultura) has six institutions. These are:

  • Music Department (Departamento de Música)
  • Music library (Biblioteca de Música)
  • Eduardo Mondlane University Art Gallery (Galeria de Arte da UEM)
  • National Money Museum (Museu Nacional da Moeda)
  • Maputo Fortress (Fortaleza de Maputo)
  • University cultural center (Centro Cultural Universitário).

Graduates

Web links

Commons : Universidade Eduardo Mondlane  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of Members. (pdf) In: www.fumi-fuiw.org. Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, 2017, p. 19 , accessed on September 3, 2019 .
  2. ^ Universidade Eduardo Mondlane - Reitor . In: www.uem.mz . Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c Universidade Eduardo Mondlane . In: www.whed.net - IAU 's World Higher Education Database (WHED) . Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ Universidade Eduardo Mondlane já tem novo reitor ( Memento from February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese, accessed June 17, 2012 at www.portaldogoverno.gov.mz)
  5. ↑ UEM: COMPETENCIAS e Estrutura Organica da Direcção de Cultura . on www.uem.mz (Portuguese)
  6. ^ UEM: Centro Cultural Universitário . on www.uem.mz (Portuguese)

Coordinates: 25 ° 56 ′ 57.7 ″  S , 32 ° 35 ′ 55.6 ″  E