{"id":22159,"date":"2022-05-06T19:04:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T19:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-five-month-holiday"},"modified":"2022-05-06T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T19:32:08","slug":"unima-students-protest-against-five-month-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-five-month-holiday","title":{"rendered":"Unima students protest against five-month holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>University of Malawi (Unima) students have demanded the university to amend an academic calendar which include a 5-month holiday. The students, in a letter by Students Representative Council (SRC) and addressed to the Registrar, say the new academic calendar has been created with no regard to the welfare of students whose studies have already been delayed by issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe students\u2019 community is especially discontented with the fact that continuing students and the upcoming First years will have to stay home for another 5 months after the closure of the designated first semester which runs from August to December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all due respect, we consider this draft of the academic calendar a symbol of an unfortunate and vision lacking management, with no regards to the welfare of the students who have already been undeservedly delayed by force majeure circumstances which includes but are not limited to covid-19 breaks and the coming in of 2021-2022 first year students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SRC and, of course, all continuing students at the University of Malawi are<\/p>\n<p>traumatised that the university has systematically decided to take away a full year of study from them and ignored a workable double cohort just to accommodate the 2021\/22 first years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe students\u2019 leadership wonders as to how and why does the management, with competent and prominent administrators, decided to disproportionately delay already delayed cohorts of students in an illogical manner that no any university in this country<\/p>\n<p>and probably in the world has ever or would reasonably ever endeavour to practice,\u201d reads part of the letter signed by SRC president Charles Dokera and Secretary General Chawezi Phiri.<\/p>\n<p>The students have since told the Registrar to withdraw the academic calendar and involve the SRC in the amendment so that the interests of the students are also taken into consideration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. University of Malawi (Unima) students have demanded the university to amend an academic calendar which include a 5-month holiday. The students, in a letter by Students Representative Council (SRC) and addressed to the Registrar, say the new academic calendar has been created with no regard to the welfare of students whose studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":22158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,371,234,954,4240,2054],"class_list":["post-22159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi","tag-students","tag-unima","tag-universities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Unima students protest against five-month holiday - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"University of Malawi (Unima) students have demanded the university to amend an academic calendar which include a 5-month ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-five-month-holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unima students protest against five-month holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"University of Malawi (Unima) students have demanded the university to amend an academic calendar which include a 5-month ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-five-month-holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-06T19:04:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-06T19:32:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627577922062b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"514\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-five-month-holiday#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-five-month-holiday\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Unima students protest against five-month holiday\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-06T19:04:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-06T19:32:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-five-month-holiday\"},\"wordCount\":319,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-five-month-holiday#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627577922062b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\",\"Students\",\"unima\",\"Universities\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-five-month-holiday#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-five-month-holiday\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-five-month-holiday\",\"name\":\"Unima students protest against five-month holiday - 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