![]() ![]() Independent of the initiatives of Hodson and the Legislative Assembly, the Central African Council's Commission on Higher Education, led by Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders (after whom another residence is now named), recommended the establishment of a university college to serve the newly established Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, with its first preference being to integrate with the Southern Rhodesian initiative. First classes began for some 68 students on a temporary site at 147 Baker Avenue (now Nelson Mandela Avenue). Four years later a bill was enacted for the incorporation and constitution of the university. The Legislative Assembly accepted an offer of land in Mount Pleasant from the City of Salisbury (now Harare) for the construction of the campus in 1948. The Governor of Southern Rhodesia established the Rhodesia University Foundation Fund in 1947. The following year, the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly adopted a motion proposed by Hodson for the establishment of a university college to serve the needs of Southern Rhodesia and neighbouring territories. In 1945, Manfred Hodson (after whom a residence hall is now named) formed the Rhodesia University Association, inspired by the promise of £20,000 by Robert Jeffrey Freeman for establishing such a university. Portraits of former Vice-Chancellors from left to right: Robert Craig, Leonard Lewis, Walter Kamba and Gordon Chavunduka. History Background Ĭouncil room of the University of Zimbabwe. The university has faced criticism for awarding fraudulent degrees to members of the Robert Mugabe regime, most notably First Lady Grace Mugabe. The university is accredited through the National Council for Higher Education, under the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education. The university has eleven faculties (with faculties of Agriculture Environment and Food Systems, Arts and Humanities, Business Management Sciences and Economics, Computer Engineering Informatics and Communications, Education, Engineering and Built Environment, Law, Science, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Veterinary Sciences and Medicine and Health Sciences) offering a wide variety of degree programmes and many specialist research centres and institutes. It was later renamed the University of Rhodesia, and adopted its present name upon Zimbabwe's independence in 1980. It opened in 1952 as the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and was initially affiliated with the University of London. The University of Zimbabwe ( UZ) is a public university in Harare, Zimbabwe. ![]()
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