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Lectures to protest Grace Mugabe PhD Award
22 Sep 2014 at 03:33hrs | Views
A STORM is brewing at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) as senior lecturers, including deans and professors, plan to write a letter of protest to the university council, the institution's highest decision-making body, over the controversial award of a doctoral degree to President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace, it has emerged.
"Deans and senior lecturers want to engage the council demanding an explanation on how the university awarded Grace Mugabe a PhD," a UZ professor who requested anonymity said yesterday.
"We have checked university, department and faculty records, from registration, the academic committee, research and attendant issues like supervision both internal and external and exam processes; there are so many gaps and question marks. It seems procedures were simply not followed and this is an indictment on her and the university itself."
A senior lecturer said: "We want an enquiry into this issue because it's not about Grace per se, but the UZ, its leadership and the education system in Zimbabwe. It seems this is an academic scandal of monumental proportions."
"Deans and senior lecturers want to engage the council demanding an explanation on how the university awarded Grace Mugabe a PhD," a UZ professor who requested anonymity said yesterday.
"We have checked university, department and faculty records, from registration, the academic committee, research and attendant issues like supervision both internal and external and exam processes; there are so many gaps and question marks. It seems procedures were simply not followed and this is an indictment on her and the university itself."
A senior lecturer said: "We want an enquiry into this issue because it's not about Grace per se, but the UZ, its leadership and the education system in Zimbabwe. It seems this is an academic scandal of monumental proportions."
Source - independent
