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The Zambian Open University (ZAOU) is a distance education university in Zambia, located in the suburb of Villa Elizabetha close to downtown Lusaka.
It is also planned that three study centres will be established in Lusaka, Kitwe and Livingstone.
It is a private university that:
- Responds to the need for upgrading teachers qualifications, teachers supply, provide training,research and contribute to community service; providing quality and relevant teacher education that would respond to the professional needs of the country while embracing the requirements of the profession in the universities around the world
- Responds to other areas of training in which there would be demand.
In addition to the Bachelor of Education for Primary, Secondary and Adult Education, it now offers the following programmes:
- Bachelor of Law
- Bachelor of Art - Developmental Studies
The Zambian Open University web site is at http://www.zambianopenuniversity.ac.zm
More details
History
(sourced from http://www.zambianopenuniversity.ac.zm/Historical_Background.html)
In February 2002, six founders sought to establish a private university which would contribute to the alleviation of some of the problems faced by the existing Zambian universities in providing higher education. They realized that the demand for higher education by primary and secondary school teachers with certificate and diploma qualifications was high and could not be met through traditional methods of teacher education. In 2002, there were 32,000 primary school teachers with certificates and over 7,000 secondary school teachers with diplomas in education who needed university education.
In February 2000 the Zambian Open University was registered with the Registrar of Companies as a Company with Limited Liability. The founders invited 40 Zambians to participate in the running of the institution through purchase of shares.
The Ministry of Education asked ZAOU to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Zambia (UNZA) before it could be recognized and registered (under University Act No. 26 of 1994). The MOU emphasized on the need for complementarily rather than competition between the two institutions was signed on 2nd November, 2004. The MOU allowed ZAOU to engage services of UNZA staff and draw on existing curricula of UNZA while reciprocating this with transfer of some fees accruing to staff to UNZA.
In December 2004 the Minister of Education officially registered ZAOU thus heralding birth of the first Open University in Zambia. ZAOU admitted 450 of the 700 applicants and enrolled its first 208 students in the month of February 2005.
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