{"id":2222,"date":"2011-05-24T10:57:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T10:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2011-05-24T10:57:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T10:57:34","slug":"commission-of-inquiry-appointed-on-varsity-impasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/24\/commission-of-inquiry-appointed-on-varsity-impasse\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission of inquiry appointed on varsity impasse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2223\" title=\"mutharika1-300x225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mutharika1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>As the dispute between the academic staff of university of Malawi  chancellor College and polytechnic and the university council continues,  President Bingu wa Muthalika on Sunday appointed a commission of  inquiry to investigate and resolve issues surrounding the two sides over  academic freedom.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the office of the President and cabinet  it says the commission will be Chaired by former Unima Vice \u2013chancellor  Professor Brown Chimphamba .<\/p>\n<p>The commission comes after 95 days of the deadlock between the two  sides, which have resulted in the indefinite closure of the two  colleges.<\/p>\n<p>The commission will inquire into the root causes of the disputes between academic staff of the two colleges.<\/p>\n<p>The commission will inquire into the issue of \u201cacademic freedom and  employment issues in the University and recommend to government a  lasting solution to the current and future disputes\u201d according to the  statement.<\/p>\n<p>The other member of the comission include professor Moira  Chimombo,Lawyer Krishna Savjan,Catholic Bishop Emiritus Felix Mkholi and  former career civil servant Beaton Munthali while Chief Legal Advocate  Bruno Kalemba will be Secretary to the commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the dispute between the academic staff of university of Malawi chancellor College and polytechnic and the university council continues, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[640,589,202,394],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dpp-3","tag-chanco","tag-dr-bingu","tag-education","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}