University of Zimbabwe
| University of Zimbabwe | |
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| motto | Knowledge, diligence, integrity |
| founding | 1952 |
| Sponsorship | public |
| place | Harare , Zimbabwe |
| Vice President | Levi Nyagura |
| Students | 12,271 (2009) |
| Website | www.uz.ac.zw |
The University of Zimbabwe was founded in Zimbabwe as a college of the University of London in 1952 and has been independent since 1971. The university has its campus in the north of Harare . It comprises ten faculties and had 12,271 students in 2009.
The establishment of a university institute in Rhodesia was first proposed in 1945. After the Legislative Assembly of South Rhodesia also called for a college for British Central Africa in 1946 , the Governor General set up a fund for the establishment of a Rhodesian university, and the following year the city of Salisbury (now Harare) made land available for the future campus.
In 1952, the Legislative Assembly of Southern Rhodesia passed the necessary resolutions for the establishment of the university, which began its courses at temporary locations. Construction on campus began in 1953; from 1957 the entire university business was concentrated there. The University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland had been associated in a special way with the University of London since 1956, and medical classes, which began in 1963, with the University of Birmingham . After the dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1963 and the unilateral declaration of independence of Rhodesia by the white minority government in 1965, the university retained its autonomy and remained open to all sections of the population. 1970-1971 the associations with the universities of London and Birmingham were dissolved, and the college gained independence as the University of Rhodesia . The name was renamed University of Zimbabwe after the internationally recognized independence of Zimbabwe in 1980 . In 1982 a parliamentary resolution replaced the original founding statute.
Web links
- University of Zimbabwe - official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Quality assurance challenges and opportunities faced by private Universities in Zimbabwe , Evelyn Chiyevo Garwe (Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education), Journal of Case Studies in Education Volume 5 - February 2014. ISSN 1949-6427 (Online), ISSN 2327-7084 (Print)
Coordinates: 17 ° 47 ′ 1 ″ S , 31 ° 3 ′ 11 ″ E