Universidade Agostinho Neto

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Universidade Agostinho Neto
UAN
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founding September 28, 1976
Sponsorship Republic of Angola
place Talatona , AngolaAngolaAngola 
Rector Orlando da Mata (since 2010)
Students 29,827 (2011)
Professors 832 (2011)
Website www.uan.ao

The Universidade Agostinho Neto (UAN) is the first university founded in Angola after independence was achieved in 1975. It initially included the state higher education institutions across the country, but was restricted to Luanda and the neighboring province of Bengo in 2008/2009 . Today it is the largest of the twenty public and private universities in Angola. The 20.23 km² campus is located in Talatona .

history

Higher education was introduced in Angola in 1962, at the beginning of the late colonial phase. At that time the Estudos Gerais Universitários de Angola ("General University Studies of Angola") were founded in Luanda by the Portuguese colonial state, which had only a few subjects. In 1968 these were converted into a "Universidade de Luanda", which had an economics and medical faculty in Luanda itself, and in Huambo (then Nova Lisboa ) a faculty for agronomy and forestry. In the meantime, the Roman Catholic Church had received permission to add a university degree in social work to its “Instituto Pio XII de Educação e Serviço Social” (Institute Pius XII. For Education and Social Work) in Luanda. After Angola achieved independence at the end of 1975, the "Universidade de Luanda" was reopened at the end of 1976 under the name "Universidade de Angola" and renamed "Universidade Agostinho Neto" in 1985 in honor of Agostinho Neto , the first President of Angola and honorary rector of the university. At that time, it had two dependencies in addition to the main campus in Luanda , in Lubango and in Huambo.

In the 1970s / 1980s, the - then not yet so-called - UAN initially concentrated on the training of secondary school teachers ; To this end, it set up ISCEDs ( Institutos Superiores de Ciências da Educação , university institutes for educational science) in Luanda and other cities . In addition, she continued the already existing faculties and gradually added more to them. These were located in the capital and in several provincial capitals. At the end of the 2000s, the UAN comprised around 40 faculties and other institutes scattered across the country. In 1997, the rector and deans were elected for the first time in democratic elections, which began a new phase of academic self-government.

The headquarters campus, called the University Town of Camama, in the parish of Talatona , Angola.

In the period that followed, however, it became more and more obvious that an institutional construction of this geographical extension would inevitably involve considerable functional problems. In 2008/2009 the solution was found to replace the all-encompassing UAN with a total of seven autonomous regional universities. In addition to Luanda, these were located in six provincial capitals and were each assigned responsibility for other provinces, in which they were also responsible for the establishment of university institutions. The “Universidade Katyavala Bwila” was founded in Benguela , the “Universidade 11 de Novembro” in Cabinda , the “Universidade José Eduardo dos Santos” in Huambo, the “Universidade Mandume ya Ntemufayo” in Lubango , and the “Universidade Lueij A ” in Malanje 'Nkonda ”and in Uíge the“ Universidade Kimpa Vita ”; the "mother university" in Luanda kept the name "Universidade Agostinho Neto". This decentralization of the state university and the simultaneous increase in private universities led to the establishment of a separate ministry for science, research and technology, which also eliminated the previous role of the UAN of being the government's point of contact for the entire higher education system.

In Luanda the UAN no longer has a university monopoly. Until 2002 there was only the Catholic University of Angola (Universidade Católica de Angola, UCAN). Since then, there have been around a dozen private universities in the city in addition to the UCAN, which compete with each other and with the UAN for student demand, the growth of which has fallen short of expectations.

structure

The UAN currently comprises the following entities, with the exception of the latter, all in Luanda:

In connection with the construction of our own campus (see below), partial restructuring is currently planned. In addition, all faculties are to set up courses for further studies ( Magister , doctorate ).

Infrastructure

So far, the facilities of the UAN are housed in different building complexes, z. Some of them are not very functional and overall no longer correspond in any way to the constantly growing number of students, lecturers and employees. For this reason , a "Cidade Universitária" ("university town") has been under construction in the Kilamba Kiaxi district in southern Luanda since the early 2000s . It is a very extensive campus that will accommodate all of the UAN's teaching, research and administrative units by 2012. It also provides dormitories for students and apartments or houses for members of the teaching staff. The campus has a capacity of 40,000 students.

financing

The UAN is financed almost entirely from the state budget and through grants from state-owned companies (primarily Sonangol ). Tuition fees are generally not charged, with the exception of courses that take place in the evening and are reserved for students who are professionally active.

literature

  • Eugénio Alves da Silva, Universidade Agostinho Neto: Quo Vadis? , Luanda: Kilombelombe, 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orlando da Mata assume reitoria da UAN. June 14, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b Boletim informativo sobre os órgãos de direção da UAN ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - UAN portal ( UNIVERSIDADE AGOSTINHO NETO ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uan.ao
  3. ↑ UAN Campus uan.ao , accessed on May 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ Martin Schümer: The Economy of Angola 1973-1976. Approaches to a development strategy of the MPLA government . Work from the Institute for Africa Customer 12, Hamburg 1977, p. 339
  5. ↑ See Paulo de Carvalho, Víctor Kajibanga, Franz-Wilhelm Heimer : Angola. In: D. Teferra, P. Altbach (orgs.): African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Indianapolis 2003, pp. 162-175.
  6. ↑ In the course of this reform, the ISCEDs were directly subordinated to the new ministry, even if the UAN Currently still "in care".
  7. ↑ REITORIA DA UNIVERSIDADE AGOSTINHO NETO. ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 280 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uan.ao
  8. ↑ Luanda vai ter cidade universitária em 2012. April 22, 2011.

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