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The University of Namibia is the only institution in the world to offer a doctorate in the study of the Khoekhoe language. In 2023, UNAM has been co-ranked 16th among the Top 100 Universities in Africa, by the 2023 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.
The Polytechnic of Namibia was de jure not a university as no provision was made in the Act by which it was created (Act 33 / 1994) [3] to carry this name. A motion for name change into Namibia's University of Science and Technology was rejected by cabinet in August 2010, [ 4 ] but approved by the same body in December 2012.
The history of Namibia has passed through several distinct stages from being colonised in the late nineteenth century to Namibia's independence on 21 March 1990. From 1884, Namibia was a German colony: German South West Africa. After the First World War, the League of Nations gave South Africa a mandate to administer the
It emerged from the Academy for Tertiary Education, founded in 1980, which was the first institution of higher education in the Republic of Namibia.Act 9 of 1985 of the South African administration defined three sections for this academy, a university part, the College of Out-of-School Training (COST) for vocational training programs and the Technikon Namibia for technical programs related to ...
The United Nations Institute for Namibia (UNIN) was an educational body set up by the United Nations Council for Namibia from 1976 to 1990. [1] Based in Zambia's capital of Lusaka, UNIN was the brainchild of United Nations Commissioner for Namibia Seán MacBride, the proposal creating UNIN was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1974. [2]
Before Namibia's independence, the country's education system was designed to reinforce apartheid rather than provide the necessary human resource base to promote equitable social and economic development. It was fragmented along racial and ethnic lines, with vast disparities in both the allocation of resources and the quality of education offered.
Neudamm is a farm and settlement in the Khomas Region of central Namibia, situated c. 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Windhoek on the B6 to Gobabis, close to Windhoek's international airport. The entire area is today a campus of the University of Namibia for agricultural education and experimental farming.
Public universities in South Africa are divided into three types: traditional universities, which offer theoretically oriented university degrees; universities of technology ("technikons"), which offer vocational oriented diplomas and degrees; and comprehensive universities, which offer a combination of both types of qualification.