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  INHEA: Zimbabwe Higher Education Profile
The establishment of the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1957 was the first-ever colonial government initiative toward instituting a post-secondary school in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
Because of the international nature of Africa University, the United Methodist Church authorities stipulated that 60% of the students and faculty members would be drawn from outside Zimbabwe.
A common complaint at several college and university institutions was that some authorities did not adhere to appropriate forms of division of labor, responsibility, accountability, and transparency in their administrative practice.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/inhea/profiles/Zimbabwe.htm   (652 words)

  
 University of Zimbabwe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was formerly a college of the University of London and it opened its doors to its first students in 1952.
After the dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the University College continues as an independent institution of higher education and research, open to all races.
With the advent of HIV/AIDS and the massive impact on Zimbabweans a collaboration with UCSF University of California, San Francisco was established.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Zimbabwe   (610 words)

  
 University of Zimbabwe
The University of Zimbabwe is one of Southern Africa's foremost academic institutions.
Following Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the university was renamed the University of Zimbabwe.
Harare is the capital of Zimbabwe with a population of 1,185,000.
www.georgetown.edu /programs/oip/os/sites/africa/zimbabwe.htm   (378 words)

  
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The CSU International Programs in Zimbabwe is located in Harare, the capital city, where it is affiliated with the University of Zimbabwe (UZ).
The name "Zimbabwe" derives from the ruins of the civilization of the ancient ancestors of the Shona people, the predominant ethnic and linguistic group in the country.
Zimbabwe is a vital and progressive young nation which is undergoing a comprehensive process of planning development.
www.sa.sdsu.edu /ISC/study_abroad/pr__Zimbabwe_CSUIP.html   (257 words)

  
 ..:: Institute of Environmental Studies ::..   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Institute of Environmental Studies (IES) was established in 1994 as an independent, non-faculty unit within the University of Zimbabwe, in response to national consensus about the ecological, social and economic consequences of environmental change.
The chief role of IES is facilitatory in that it is a front door to harnessing the wide range of resources available throughout the University of Zimbabwe.
It operates by means of a series of highly decentralized partnerships with other University departments, universities in the developed and developing countries, government institutions and non-governmental organizations.
www.ies.ac.zw   (187 words)

  
 African Studies Center | Zimbabwe Page
The Zimbabwe Music Festival is the largest annual gathering in North America for students, teachers, performers, and fans of Zimbabwean music.
The Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) Trust is an independent association of professionals from the African literary community, charged with the responsibility for promoting and developing the African book industry by providing an efficient and effective annual trade and cultural event.
MBIRA is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to educate the public regarding traditional Shona music of Zimbabwe, including mbira music, and to develop a library of recordings to preserve that music.
www.africa.upenn.edu /Country_Specific/Zimbabwe.html   (624 words)

  
 The University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
The University of Zimbabwe has a diverse student body drawn predominantly from the country’s various ethnic groups - Shona, Ndebeles, Manyikas, Karangas, Ndaus, Vendas, and others.
The University can assist in securing accommodation for students who prefer to live off-campus on their own or with local families.
The ethnic population of Zimbabwe is reflected in the population of Harare, compromised of many cultures with a rich history of various tribal units including the Shona (estimated 80%), the Ndebele (estimated 20%).
www.bard.edu /iile/univ_zim/index.shtml   (503 words)

  
 This is Zimbabwe » Blog Archive » Riot police cause mayhem at the University of Zimbabwe
In a shocking development, the riot police caused mayhem and pandemonium on the University of Zimbabwe on the night of the 24th of April, beating up students indiscriminately and firing teargas into the halls of residence.
This move is unprecedented, and speaks volumes of the intolerance levels of this regime, denying students their democratic choice to seek political office is the highest form of academic barbarism, and should be condemned at all costs.
Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth for electoral fraud and violence, yet Uganda will be honored by hosting CHOGM 2007.
www.sokwanele.com /thisiszimbabwe/archives/403   (894 words)

  
 Evangelical Lutheran Church of Zimbabwe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe (ELCZ), which became autonomous in 1962, is primarily located in the southern agricultural regions and has moved into the cities as its members have migrated to urban areas.
The Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe is Dr. Ambrose Moyo.
He is a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe and a renowned speaker and writer in the international Lutheran community.
www.elca.org /countrypackets/zimbabwe/church.html   (514 words)

  
 UZ-UCSF Collaborative Research Programme Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The UZ-UCSF Collaborative Research Programme is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Zimbabwe and the University of California at San Francisco.
The collaboration between the University of California San Francisco and the University of Zimbabwe was initiated in 1994 by a research study conducted by Janneke van de Wijgert, a doctoral student at that time.
This particular HPTU is a collaboration between the University of Zimbabwe, the University of California San Francisco, Stanford University, the Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention Program (ZAPP) and the HIV/AIDS Research Group at the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
www.uz-ucsf.co.zw   (2132 words)

  
 Zimbabwe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zimbabwe (IPA: [zɪmˈbɑbwe]), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, and formerly known as the Republic of Rhodesia, is a landlocked country in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers.
Zimbabwe is a republic, with an executive president and a bicameral Parliament.
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country, surrounded by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east and northeast.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zimbabwe   (3125 words)

  
 ALA | Partnerships in Libraries
The Institute of Development Studies library at the University of Zimbabwe is one library, which has to a great extent been influenced by the aforementioned elements.
Currently the University of Zimbabwe is a member of ZULC (Zimbabwe University Librarians Consortium), which was formed to provide resource sharing among the members of the community in general.
MSU students are invited to enroll at University of Zimbabwe because of the larger faculty exchanges especially active between the colleges of Education, Agriculture the library and Social Science.
www.ala.org /ala/iro/iroactivities/partnerships.htm   (1881 words)

  
 University Faculty In Zimbabwe Reject Pay Raise Offer - 2004-03-17   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The faculty at Zimbabwe's leading state university has rejected a government offer of a pay increase and decided to continue a strike that has shut down the university for weeks.
The strike has crippled the University of Zimbabwe, the country's oldest institution of higher learning, for well over a year, and it is spreading.
In 2003, the university failed to open at the beginning of the academic year after the lecturers did not turn up.
voanews.com /english/archive/2004-03/a-2004-03-17-61-University.cfm?...   (346 words)

  
 PJM News - Confucius Institute founded at University of Zimbabwe (10550068/XIN)
The Zimbabwe Confucius Institute is a case that indicates the increasing cultural and educational exchange activities between China and Zimbabwe, said Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Zhang Xianyi at the ceremony on signing a memorandum on this matter.
China and Zimbabwe are endowed with a long history of friendship and relations of mutual benefit, and the two countries are always sympathized with and accord valuable support to each other, Zhang said.
Mudenge said Zimbabwe also envisages the launching of short- term courses in Chinese language at the Management Training Bureau and more programs, for example, the establishment of a department of pharmacology at the Harare Institute of Technology, will facilitate and enhance the transfer of technology for sustainable development in Zimbabwe.
news.pajamasmedia.com /politics/2006/08/30/10550068_Confucius_Instit.shtml   (556 words)

  
 Earning a Life: working children in Zimbabwe
Professor of Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe
Virginia Mapedzahama did her master’s degree in Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe, and is now studying in Australia.
Victor Ngonidzashe Muzvidziwa is on leave from the University of Zimbabwe and currently teaching in the Department of Sociology, University of Lesotho.
www.weaverpresszimbabwe.com /youth/earning.htm   (489 words)

  
 Publications
Sparked by a Minnesotan’s lecture, students at the University of Zimbabwe confront the social forces fueling the AIDS epidemic in their country.
Zimbabwe’s inflation rate is at 140 percent, unemployment near 70 percent, and 6.7 million people are at risk of starvation as a result of drought and destructive land-reform policies.
His lecture to the scientific association, although misunderstood by some, was taken to heart by a university student who approached Terry afterwards to ask for his help with organizing an AIDS prevention and awareness project on campus.
www.mmaonline.net /publications/MNMed2003/June/Kraco.html   (1187 words)

  
 Long Island University - Zimbabwe
PELUM College Zimbabwe (P-C-Zed, affectionately) was launched on May 4, and I couldn't have hoped for a bigger success.
The students spent their first week in orientation at Fambidzanai, and the second week at University of Zimbabwe Faculty of Agriculture and the Institute of Environmental Studies learning soil science and research skills.
The students really enjoyed their time at UZ; it is a big status symbol to attend University (none of them have a University education), so they all walked around like hotshots on campus for a week.
www.liu.edu /but04/zimbabwe/letter3.html   (2571 words)

  
 Zimbabwe Open University: UNESCO-CI
Zimbabwe Open University is one of the leading distance and open learning institutions in Zimbabwe.
The ZOU is a multi-disciplinary inter-faculty institution offering degree and non-degree courses through distance teaching and open learning to youth and adult learners.
With cutting-edge technology, the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) provides knowledge, competencies and dispositions necessary for the development of competitive human resources.
portal.unesco.org /ci/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=6363&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html   (59 words)

  
 Sarec-Zimbabwe
In general, the project aims at strengthening the research capacity at the University of Zimbabwe in hydrogeology, geophysics and remote sensing.
An improvement of the methodology for estimation of evaporation from remotely sensed Landsat TM data is part of the study.
University of Southampton in U.K. and the Free University of Amsterdam assisted with the supervision of the work.
lthtg.tg.lth.se /~tda/newsarec.html   (963 words)

  
 Zimbabwe on the Internet
Taylor, Ian - "We are the Democrats: The Crisis in Zimbabwe and the Death of the NEPAD".
Zimbabwe film on the role of women in the war of independence.
The report recommends that "The Government of Zimbabwe should unilaterally withdraw from the SOCEBO logging deal,......The Parliament of Zimbabwe should condemn the corporate ambitions of Zanu-PF,...." Global Witness is based in London.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/zim.html   (8430 words)

  
 Study Abroad
Michigan State University offers an exciting opportunity for U.S. undergraduates to study at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) in southern Africa during spring semester or for a full academic year.
UZ is the larger of two national universities in a nation that won its independence and majority rule in 1980.
This study abroad program at UZ is a special feature of the larger linkage agreement between MSU and UZ Students accepted into the program (by MSU and UZ) will be enrolled as "special students" at the University of Zimbabwe and earn transfer credit.
www.msu.edu /~mcadooda/zimbabwe.html   (93 words)

  
 NUFU ved UiO, Zimbabwe 28/96
It is a collaborative computer-aided ongoing project involving linguists, lexicographers and computer experts from the universities of Oslo, Gothenburg and Zimbabwe.
The competence building and the good results reached at the UZ make lexicography a natural focus in future plans for the African languages department at UZ, and it is expected that lexicography and corpus work will be established in a separate section by 1999.
It is also natural to plan for future close relations with the prospective "National Languages committee of Zimbabwe" (to take over from the Shona, Ndebele and minority committees), whose work within language standardisation and planning will need constant support from the resources now being created through the ALLEX-project.
www.uio.no /english/about_uio/international/north-south/nufu/afrika/zimbabwesp.html   (386 words)

  
 About Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Arnold holds Bachelor of Laws Hons Degree from the University of Zimbabwe and a Bachelor of Law from the same university.
She holds a Bsc Hons Degree in Politics and Administration from the University of Zimbabwe.
He holds a Bachelors Degree in the Arts from the University of Zimbabwe and a Diploma in Journalism and Communications.
www.zlhr.org.zw /about/staff.htm   (601 words)

  
 INHEA: Zimbabwe publications
Dorsey, B. J., Gaidzanwa, R. B., and Mupawaenda, A. Factors affecting academic careers for women at the University of Zimbabwe.
Kawewe, S., M. Planning for higher education for social development in Zimbabwe: An assessment of the University of Zimbabwe's students and lecturers concerning their perception of the university's curriculum in terms of providing skills necessary to carry out national reconstruction tasks.
Mvududu, M. Attitudes and opinions of Zimbabwe university faculty and administrators toward enrollment of all first year students in personal and family living subjects.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/inhea/pubs_country/Zimbabwe.htm   (234 words)

  
 Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe
Africa University is a Methodist University, as is Linfield College in McMinneville, Oregon, and many other rural schools globally.
A 10 foot by 10 foot research greenhouse was donated by Carbon Quest to Africa University in Mutare Zimbabwe.
Agriculture is just one primary focus of the University and the hydroponic greenhouse supports research in plant nutrients and hydroponic culture.
www.carbon.org /AfricaUniv.htm   (170 words)

  
 Education & Schools for Zimbabwe
Africa University - Africa University - Is located between the lowlands of Mozambique and the highlands of Zimbabwe.
My life at the University of Zimbabwe - My life at the University of Zimbabwe - A cool page for u.z students.
University of Zimbabwe - University of Zimbabwe - Faculties and Programs Arts, Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Science, Social Studies, Vet Science.
www.escapeartist.com /zimbabwe/education.htm   (342 words)

  
 Long Island University - Zimbabwe
University of Zimbabwe (U-Zed as we call it fondly), however, they are only offering email to faculty this year.
In Zimbabwe, it can take up to 10 years to get a phone line hooked up to your home.
My biggest priority is PELUM College Zimbabwe, which will be launched in early May. PCZ is a revolutionary school where students will travel between 14 different organizations within Zimbabwe learning Sustainable Agriculture and Community Development.
www.liu.edu /but04/zimbabwe/letter1.html   (2154 words)

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