University of Zambia

University of Zambia
motto	Service and Excellence
founding	November 12, 1965
Sponsorship	state
place	Lusaka , Zambia
Vice-Chancellor (German: Vice Chancellor)	Stephen Simukanga
Students	10,122 (2007)
Website	www.unza.zm

The University of Zambia ( English : University of Zambia , UNZA for short) was founded in Lusaka in 1965 and began operations on March 17, 1966 on the Ridgeway Campus . It is the largest university in Zambia .

location

The main campus is the Great East Road Campus , located on Great East Road and six kilometers from the city center. The second area is called the Ridgeway Campus . It is located on the Nationalist Road southeast of Lusaka across from the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) (German about: Universitätslehrkrankenhaus) and serves the School of Medicine (German about: Medical School).

history

University of Zambia in Lusaka, 1978

The legal basis for its establishment is Act No. 66 of 1965 ( Act of Parliament No. 66 of 1965 ). It was founded almost hastily, since at the time of its independence Zambia had just over 100 graduates with a population of 3.5 million . No other British colony gained independence with so few college graduates. The University of Zambia based its claim and orientation initially on the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute of Social Research (see Manchester School of Anthropology ).

In the first years of its existence three academic departments (schools) worked: education, humanities and social sciences and natural sciences. In the first academic year 312 students were enrolled. With the consolidation of the founding structures, the university's offering expanded to include further departments: Law (1967), Technology (1969), Medicine (1970), Agricultural Sciences (1971), Mining (1973), Economics and Industrial Studies (1978, on the Ndola Campus ), Environmental Protection (1981, on the Ndola Campus ) and Veterinary Medicine (1983).

In 1975 a federal structure for the university was established. This resulted in three main locations, in the cities of Lusaka, Ndola and Solwezi in the North-Western province . The University of Zambia Act laid the constitutional basis for this from 1979.

Academic offer

Around 10,122 students study at the university (2007). The campus is on the Great East Road , about seven kilometers outside of downtown Lusaka. The medical campus is on Ridgeway near the university hospital.

The University of Lusaka offers courses in agriculture , engineering, natural sciences, education , law and social sciences , medicine , veterinary medicine and mining . The courses last four years, in engineering and medicine five and seven years.

The university operates the School of Agricultural Sciences , which works independently.

Chancellors

The Chancellor (Chancellor) predominantly takes on representative and political tasks. The following people held this position at the University of Zambia:

1966-1991 Kenneth David Kaunda
1992-1997 John M. Mwanakatwe
1998–1999 not occupied
since 2000 Jacob M. Mwanza

Vice-Chancellors

The Vice-Chancellor (Vice Chancellor) carries out tasks that are the responsibility of the university rector at universities in German-speaking countries. The following people held this position at the University of Zambia: