University of Malawi UNIMA ACT 2014 – 2016 – Check Below:
University of Malawi 2014-2016 Report concerns the University of Malawi’s programme of work for the financial years 2014/15 and 2015/16. The period witnessed several achievements towards the growth and leadership of the UNIMA–a centre of excellence in teaching, research and community engagements. Throughout, Council as the governing body, assumed the overall responsibility for academic and administrative affairs, institutional policy and strategy, and assets and liabilities, pursuant to section 10 (1) of the UNIMA Act, and provisions 5.2.2 and 5.2.3 of the
Code of Conduct for Board of Directors of Statutory Corporations. Council therefore undertook its mandate to steer UNIMA as it strived to chieve its objectives in all strategic pillars: Teaching and Learning; Research, Consultancy and Community Engagement; Capacity Building; Governance and Management; and Finance and Resource Mobilisation. Council is keen to reposition UNIMA so that it optimally contributes to the socio-cultural and economic development of the nation consistent with the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS) II, National Education Sector Plan (NESP), and other domestic and regional development protocols. Consequently, quality, access and sustainable growth have been pursued in line with its vision as an institution of higher learning.
Consistent with the foregoing, Council approved the development of a 10-year strategic plan (SP) to clearly articulate the kind of university that the country should aspire for over the next 50 years, and functions/business processes necessary to realise the dream. To this end, Council commissioned, among others, functional review and revision of the UNIMA Act as critical success factors for efficient and effective implementation of the 10-year Strategic Plan.
In the reporting period, Council accomplishments included (i) combined accountability-based programme of work for the Vice-Chancellor and the Pro-Vice Chancellor (ii) promotion of eight (8) senior academics to full professorship, (iii) registration of UNIMA Trust, (iv) amicable settlements of staff and students strikes, (v) engagement the Auditor General in UNIMA audit system, and (vi) celebrating UNIMA Golden Jubilee.
