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dc.contributor.authorWandira, Asavia
dc.coverage.spatialZimbabwe.en
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-16T12:33:01Z
dc.date.available2015-12-16T12:33:01Z
dc.date.issued1981-09
dc.identifier.citationWandira, A. (1981) The university in times of change, In Chideya, N.T., Chikomba, C.E.M., Pongweni, A.J.C. and Tsikirayi, L.C. (eds.) The role of the university and its future in Zimbabwe: international conference papers. UZ, Mt. Pleasant, Harare: Harare Publishing House, pp.8-18.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/7233
dc.descriptionAn address by the then Makerere University Vice Chancellor on the governance of institutions of higher learning in times of socio-political change.en
dc.description.abstractThe management of universities at anytime — changing or non-changing — is not yet a perfect science, not even a science of alternatives. In your search for a role for the University of Zimbabwe in the years immediately ahead, I can offer no models of perfection. For, in spite of concerted efforts over the last two decades in Independent Africa, there is no agreed model or set of models for university involvement with the national economy or polity. Instead, there have been prolonged discussions followed by a growing realization that the search for new models for the University of Africa cannot yet be ended. Nor can I escape from the necessity for me to suggest a model for Zimbabwe, by pointing-to a "World University Model", sometimes suggested by some scholars. There is not yet a globalized model whose idea and structure I would recommend you replicate in Zimbabwe. I must therefore ask you to treat me with the same tolerance that you would afford your economic advisers describing alternatives on the one hand and options on the other. Hopefully, you will not, like the famous industrialist in search of practical solutions, advise me to become one-handed. In mitigation, let me express the hope that the practical experience of Makerere University and that of other universities in our neighborhood — which will form the background of my remarks — will throw some light upon your problems. Hopefully too, by speaking of the dilemmas I have witnessed at first hand in the institution-building and reconstruction in Uganda, I may be permitted to share a few worries and to ask if such worries could be avoided in your caseen
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Carnegie Corporation of New Yorken
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.subjectEducationen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleThe university in times of changeen
dc.typeConference paperen
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Zimbabwe (UZ)en


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