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Student Enrolment per Region 2017. This amounts to a 5.5% increase from the
All the regions of Namibia were represented previous year. Zambia had the most graduates,
through enrolments at UNAM. The majority of namely 132, followed by Zimbabwe with 79,
UNAM students originated from the Oshana Angola with 23 and Botswana with 14 graduates.
region, namely 5 474 students who enrolled in
2017. The Oshana region was followed by the Campus Activities
Khomas region, with 3 866 students. a) Main Campus
The Main Campus in Windhoek houses
The Main Campus in Windhoek attracted the five faculties: the Faculty of Economic &
most students for full-time and part-time studies, Management Sciences, the Faculty of
namely, 11 326 in 2017 compared to 11 424 in Education, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of
2016. Hifikepunye Pohamba Campus followed Humanities & Social Sciences and the Faculty of
with 2 705 enrolments in 2017. The Main Campus Science.
in Windhoek also attracted the most students for
distance teaching, namely 1 660 compared to Faculty of Education
1 695 in 2016, followed by Oshakati campus, with In 2017, the Faculty had an estimated 12 700
961 students. students enrolled in diploma, under and
postgraduate degree programmes across six
Graduation campuses.
A total of 3 785 candidates graduated from The Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture also
UNAM during the academic year under review. funds the in-service teacher capacity building
This amounts to a decrease of 5.4% from the programme, for unqualified and underqualified
previous year. teachers, which started in May 2016, in full.
A total of 2 548 female and 1 237 male students In March 2017, the Faculty hosted Dr Regine
graduated, meaning that 67% of graduates Komoss, head of Teacher Education at Bremen
were women. University. Dr Komoss’s visit was aimed at exploring
collaboration opportunities between the Faculty
A total of 263 certificates, 938 diplomas, 26 of Education and Bremen University’s Teacher
Bachelor’s degrees, 2 501 Bachelor Honours Education unit. She was impressed with the
degrees, 15 postgraduate certificates, 131 Faculty’s approach to inclusive education and
postgraduate diplomas, and 119 Master’s expressed her university’s interest in collaborating
degrees were conferred during the year under in this area of specialisation.
review.
Our collaboration with the USA Embassy in
Eight Doctorate degrees were conferred to five Windhoek, through Pacific Lutheran University, has
female graduates and three male graduates: once again seen the Faculty receiving two grant
one each in the Faculty of Agriculture and awards of around N$2.5 million to work with school
Natural Resources, the Faculty of Economic teachers and school principals to build capacity for
and Management Sciences, the Faculty of effective English teaching and school/instructional
Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Faculty leadership practices.
of Engineering and Information Technology,
and two each in the Faculty of Health Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(School of Public Health) and the Faculty of During the year under review, the Faculty began
Science. the task of unbundling the Bachelor of Arts
Honours degree into more specialised degree
A total of 309 international students from 23 programmes, with the aim of introducing the
different countries graduated from UNAM in programmes in 2019.
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