University of Namibia
| University of Namibia | |
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| motto | Inspiring minds and shaping the future |
| founding | 1992 |
| Sponsorship | Ministry of Education |
| place | Windhoek , Namibia |
| Vice Chancellor | Kenneth Matengu (since July 31, 2017) |
| Students | 25,267 (2016) |
| Employee | 1752 (2016) |
| including professors | 948 (academic staff; 2016) |
| Annual budget | N $ 1.45 billion (2016) |
| Website | www.unam.edu.na |
The University of Namibia ( English University of Namibia , usually only briefly UNAM ) is a university of three universities in Namibia . It was founded in 1992 and is based in Windhoek - Academia . It had more than 25,000 students in 2016.
The language of instruction is predominantly English; However, individual courses are also taught in Afrikaans and in German ( law and economics ). The motto of the university is "Inspiring Minds & Shaping the Future" (in German as much as: "To initiate thinking & to shape the future").
In 2018, UNAM was ranked 102nd (2014: 24th; 2010: 37th) among the best universities in Africa.
organization
The university is headed by a chancellor . This office has been held by the former Namibian President Sam Nujoma since 1992 , who handed it over to his successor Hifikepunye Pohamba in November 2011 . Nangolo Mbumba has been Vice Chancellor since February 2018 . The university is headed by the Vice Chancellor. In 2008, 8,361 students studied at UNAM, in 2009 there were 13,000, of which 2,077 were distance learning. In 2011 more than 16,000 students were enrolled at UNAM, and in 2016 more than 25,000.
Campus and faculties / schools
| Faculty / Center | Campus (location) | students | Remarks |
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| Windhoek | |||
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Medicine pharmacy |
Health Sciences Campus | 641 (2016) | |
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Military Education |
Khomasdal Campus | 1290 (2016) | |
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Agriculture Natural Resources Veterinary Medicine |
Neudamm campus | 181 (2016) | |
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Economics and Management ( Namibia Business School ) |
Main campus | 11,242 (2016) | |
| Educational science | Main campus | ||
| Nursing | Main campus | ||
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Humanities social sciences |
Main campus | ||
| law Sciences | Main campus | ||
| Natural sciences | Main campus | ||
| Outside Windhoek | |||
| Educational science | Hifikepunye Pohamba Campus ( Ongwediva ) | 2243 (2016) | |
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Engineering information technology |
José Eduardo dos Santos Campus (Ongwediva) | 204 (2016) | |
| Education Science Agriculture Natural Resources |
Katima Mulilo Campus ( Katima Mulilo ) | 1080 (2016) | |
| Agriculture natural resources |
Ogongo Campus ( Ogongo ) | 295 (2016) | |
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Public Health Nursing Computer Science |
Oshakati Campus ( Oshakati ) | 630 (2016) | |
| Educational Science, Economics and Management |
Rundu Campus ( Rundu ) | 1746 (2016) | |
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Marine Biology Agriculture Natural Resources |
Sam Nujoma Campus ( Henties Bay ) | 92 (2016) | |
| Education Economics and Nursing Management |
Southern Campus ( Keetmanshoop ) | 568 (2016) | |
Source: Annual Report UNAM, 2016
University partnerships
The University of Namibia cooperates with several German universities, in particular with ecological and other natural science departments. Partners are u. a. the University of Bremen , the Ruhr University Bochum , the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg . Since 2008, UNAM has cooperated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in the areas of linguistics, literary studies and Dutch studies.
Sports
The UNAM students are involved in various sports. UNAM FC plays in the highest Namibian football league, the Namibia Premier League . The teams UNAM Basketball in Namibian basketball and UNAM Field Hockey in hockey have been Namibian champions several times.
Sex scandal 2011/12
On May 3, 2012, the Anti-Corruption Commission revealed that several UNAM lecturers were giving students better grades in exchange for sexual services, which constitutes a high level of academic fraud, not to mention the sexual abuse of wards .
Such rumors have been linked to the university since August 2011, before they could ultimately be proven by sending relevant SMS between a lecturer and a student to the Anti-Corruption Commission. The Namibian opposition party RDP criticized the incidents at the UNAM as early as September 6, 2011, calling the university an “academic brothel”. On September 7th, the Namibian daily newspaper The Namibian announced that the UNAM management had always been aware of the incidents. This was followed by the first internal UNAM investigations, which were discontinued in December 2011 without any results.
After the anti-corruption commission had apparently uncovered the scandal in May 2012, the UNAM restarted internal investigations and came to the conclusion, as in 2011, that none of its lecturers would be involved in the scandal. At the same time, however, the Anti Corruption Commission came to a completely different conclusion and announced that numerous lecturers would be involved in the sex scandal. As a result, Namibian Deputy Education Minister David Namwandi announced on May 14, 2012 an emergency meeting with the management of the university and made it clear that the Anti-Corruption Commission would be entrusted with the investigation of the case.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Annual Report 2016. UNAM. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
- ^ Ranking Web of World Universities, Africa. Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, 2014.Retrieved May 16, 2015
- ↑ Strictly private audience. . In: Allgemeine Zeitung of November 24, 2011, accessed March 5, 2012.
- ^ VC Message , accessed March 5, 2012.
- ↑ Iyambo goes to the core . In: Allgemeine Zeitung of January 18, 2010, accessed March 5, 2012.
- ↑ Gross' Graduate Gender Imbalance Worry Chancellor (PDF; 670 kB). In: UNAM Forum Online, Ed. 77, dated June 1, 2011, accessed June 17, 2011.
- ^ UNAM on the way to the next title, Allgemeine Zeitung, August 19, 2010
- ↑ The Namibian (September 6, 2012): Unam turned into 'academic brothel' , accessed December 5, 2012. (English)
- ^ The Namibian (September 7, 2012): Unam Knew About Sex-for-Marks Claims' , accessed December 5, 2012. (English)
- ↑ Namibian Sun (May 3, 2012): Anti-Corruption Commission uncovers Unam sex scandal ( Memento of September 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 5, 2012. (English)
- ↑ The Namibian (December 14, 2011): Unam sex probe finds nothing ( Memento from February 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on December 5, 2012. (English)
- ↑ New Era (May 14, 2012): Namibia: Sex-for-Marks Scandal Haunts Unam , accessed on December 5, 2012. (English)
Coordinates: 22 ° 36 ′ 40 ″ S , 17 ° 3 ′ 27 ″ E