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| Description | File 1:
'Official and confidential materials relating to the University of Malawi'
1966-1980
Papers and correspondence between Ian Michael and various individuals regarding the political situation in Malawi during the 1970s and the impact on the University of Malawi and its staff. Also includes a paper regarding events at the University of Zambia which led to its closure under a general strike in 1976
Closed until 01/01/2050
File 2:
'Non-confidential typescripts relating to the University of Malawi'
1966-1970
Various papers regarding the development of the university including calendar for 1966/7, 'educational studies and teacher training at the university', news bulletins, papers on the academic structure of the university, report of a visit made by Ian Michael and his wife to USA, UK and Canada
File 3:
Staff lists'
Annual staff lists for the university 1967-1973 and 1978, 1979, 1983
1967-1983
File 4:
'Official programmes etc'
1965-1980
Various programmes and papers regarding events at the University of Malawi mainly for awards ceremonies (with Ian Michael's addresses as Vice Chancellor) but also the Chancellor's (President Banda) inaugural address 1965, official opening of Bunda College of Agriculture 1967
File 5:
University of Malawi publications
Annual reports on the University Libraries 1965-1967 until 1970/1971
Report to Senate on the Research Committee 1966-1968
Register of graduates and diplomats 1967-1971
Annual accounts published August 1973
Prospectus, 1966
Handbooks for students 1968/9; 1970/1; 1971/2; 1972/3; 1973/4 (some years incomplete)
Calendar 1976/7; 1982/3
Booklets regarding the University of Zambia:
Commemorative programme of the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone by the First President of the Republic of Zambia and First Chancellor of the University Dr K D Kaunda, 1966
Inauguration ceremony and installation of chancellor, 1966
File 6:
'Odds and Ends'
Various papers including:
Programmes for the meaning of youth week, 1972 and 1973
Notes presumably for speeches made by Michael as Vice Chancellor, 1966-1968
Address given by Michael at the Leverhulme Conference on School Science Education October 1968. The conference was one of a series of inter-university conferences on education funded by the Trust
Talk on university organisation and national development
Ministry Circular from the Malawi Ministry of Education on traditional approaches to teaching 1972
Transcript for University Report, BBC African Service London broadcast May 1971, featuring Ian Michael as Vice Chancellor of the University of Malawi
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| AdminHistory | Dr. Ian Michael was born in Kelso in 1915. Educated in England he went on to teach at a number of schools and universities in the UK. He was seconded to the University of Khartoum in Sudan, where he was appointed the first Professor of Education. In 1964 he became the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malawi appointed by the country's first PresidentDr Hasting Kamuzu Banda. In November 1973, Dr. Michael become the Deputy Director of the Institute of Education; retiring from this post in 1978. Dr. Michael was also the founding member of the Textbook Colloquium (established in 1988), together with Christopher Stray which was established to promote the interdisciplinary study of textbooks, especially from a historical perspective. He died in 2014
Ian Michael also undertook research into the history of the teaching of English. Between 1979 and the 1990s he published 'English: from the Sixteenth Century to 1870' (1987); 'Early Textbooks of English' (1983) and a number of papers based on his research. |