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President Lazarus Chakwera has challenged the University of Malawi (UNIMA) to maintain high standards as it undergoes delinking process.
Speaking at Chancellor College during the virtual graduation where only 73 with distinction graduates physically attended, Chakwera said UNIMA founder, former President Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda had a great vision, which was to make Malawian education competitive to the world.
He said UNIMA was as such, founded to offer education that would capacitate graduates with knowledge that would make them outclass others even those from developed countries.
“We must at all-times strive to maintain the high standards that were set by the founding father of UNIMA. Even now that we are delinking, we must ensure the standards are not compromised.”
Lazarus Chakwera Challenged Unima to Maintain Standards
By Solister Mogha
Zomba, April 28, Mana: President, Dr Lazarus Chakwera has challenged the University of Malawi (Unima) to maintain high standards as it undergoes delinking process.
Speaking at Chancellor College during the virtual graduation where only 73 with distinction attended the ceremony physically.
Chakwera said the founder of Unima, Late President Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda had a great vision, which was to make Malawian education competitive to the world.
He said Unima was as such, founded to offer education that would capacitate graduates with knowledge that would make them outclass others even those from developed countries.
One of the earliest government secondary schools in Malawi, Dedza Secondary School, will on Tuesday, April 27 clock 70 years since its official opening by the then Governor of Nyasaland, Sir Geoffrey Colby in 1951.
The school, which is fondly known by the moniker ‘Mighty DeGoSS’ or its motto
‘Sapere Aude’ (dare to be wise) by its students, has produced a significant number of prominent alumni in Malawi including two former presidents of the Republic of Malawi Professor Bingu wa Mutharika and his brother, Professor Peter Mutharika.
Plaque of Official Opening of Dedza Secondary School
The school also boasts of producing prominent politicians such as Dr Goodall Gondwe, renowned academicians of the likes of Professor Brown Chimphamba, Professor Jack Wirima and Justice Professor Redson Kapindu as well as influential thought leaders in the name of Dr Precious Makiyi, Maya Mkoloma, Henry Kachaje, among others.