UNZA RETIREES’ BENEFITS
Dear Editor,
PARLIAMENT in 2007 heard that 508 lecturers and support staff retired from the University of Zambia (UNZA) and the Copperbelt University (CBU) between 2001 and December 2006.
Then Deputy Education Minister Lucy Changwe disclosed that 416 officers retired from UNZA while 92 support staff retired from the CBU.
This brought to 508, the total number of employees who retired from the country’s highest learning institution over the period under review.
Now it is good that about K23.4 million has been disbursed for retirees’ benefits this year to dismantle outstanding debt.
According to UNZA Vice Chancellor, Professor Luke Mumba, the university was unveiling measures to contribute to achievement of financial sustainability by dismantling the debt for retirees.
He said the university was in the process of reviewing the existing programmes with the introduction of market-driven ones across the university.
It is also good that the university will this year introduce three postgraduate business programmes and four under graduate business degree programmes under the distance mode of learning.
This came to light during the 49th graduation ceremony.
ELWYN ZULU, Chingola.