The University of Zambia is this week offloading a total of 4,890 graduates into the job market after they successfully completed their studies in various fields.
Of the total 4,890 graduates to be offloaded on the market, 25 are Doctors of philosophy, 421 will graduate with Masters’ degrees and 3,582 will be conferred with bachelor’s degrees while six will graduate with post graduate diplomas.
The university will also award diplomas and certificates to 734 and 122 graduates respectively during the graduation ceremony which will be conducted at the Great East road campus starting today up to Friday this week.
For the first time, the University of Zambia will conduct its graduation ceremony over a period of five consecutive working days due to a huge number of graduands who are expected to graduate this year.
Today, which is the first day of the graduation ceremony, only graduands in the schools of Medicine and Veterinary medicines will graduate.
Officiating at the graduation ceremony today UNZA Chancellor Jacob Mwanza challenged management of the university to decongest the Great East road campus by opening centres in others areas.
Dr. Mwanza also called on government to come to the aid of students by introducing students’ loan schemes to allow more Zambians access higher education.
He further appealed for adequate funding from government to allow the university to come out of the financial debt crisis which it is facing so that it can provide high quality educational services to students.
And speaking earlier, UNZA Acting Vice Chancellor Enala Tembo disclosed that the university will next year embark on the construction of the special education centre under the School of
Education in order to cater for learners with special needs.
Professor Tembo observed that lack of infrastructure and facilities to cater for persons with special needs has been denying persons with disabilities opportunities to acquire higher education at the university.
She however commended the Chinese government and the United States of America government for supporting the infrastructure development at the university.
Congrats to all graduands! We wish you the very best!
Well done….
graduates you are proud of your achievements now help lungu to create jobs.
use your entraprenural skills acquired from that institutions ladies and gentlemen,congrats my bro james sianebwe for graduating with a merit in physiotherapy well done mwaice wandi,na ipaya ne nkoko yobe mwaice mukolwe
Keep producing graduates UNZA. Education is for life, whether a job is found or not. No more ignorance in the country…
welcome to the arena where we need your intellectual capabilities. this country needs to be more and more literate. thank you UNZA for all these graduands.
PF said only intellectuals will vote for UPND, SO GO AHEAD AAND VOTE HH
I hope the graduates are for the seriously needed skills that Zambian industry survives on. Some courses need to be stopped because they only produce graduates the job market doesnt need them.
I remember in the late 80s the higher education ministry decided to do away with the secretarial course but UNIP members whose daughters had no jobs put too much pressure on the DTEVT the colleges were forced to continue running such unneccessary courses. secretaries found they had no jobs after graduating. I hope UNZA is not facing the same pressures.
congrats all ..HH is going to help you all get jobs who are jobless..
Stuff luck guys…instead of this incompetent govt of Lazy Lungu wanting to compel businesses to contribute a percentage to society they could have incentivized businesses that are taking up gradates via graduate programmes with tax breaks…most of these boys and girls will be unemployed for the next 2 years.
Comment: Congratulations to everyone including my brother Zulu Laban for doing what is right not what is easy. Be productive in society let people acknowledge you as a graduate by your actions not you going round in street announcing that you have papers.
After doing this and that, go back to school so that next time you will be like those 25 with doctorate degrees.