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Title: | The University of Zimbabwe, 1955-2005 |
Author: | Atkinson, N.D. |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Heritage of Zimbabwe (ISSN 0556-9605) |
Issue: | 25 |
Pages: | 130-138 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Southern Africa |
Subjects: | universities educational history History, Archaeology history University of Zimbabwe education |
Abstract: | To ensure that colonial universities would achieve the necessary standards of academic reputation and social influence, the new institutions were established at first, not as full universities, but as university colleges, under the supervision of an academic body in the United Kingdom. The University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was founded by Royal Charter in 1955 to serve the three countries of the newly inaugurated Central African Federation (now Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe). This paper examines the early departmental structures of this college as well as the (political) developments which led to the establishment, in 1970, of the University of Rhodesia - still operating under the provisions of the Royal Charter - and the University of Zimbabwe in 1980. [ASC Leiden abstract] |