Nkrumah University
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The Nkrumah University is Zambia
's largest teacher training university, founded in 1971. It has a student population of about 6,000.
City. It also just acquired PEDESA Campus along the same street (famously called Pan-African Institute); this campus will help expand the capacity and smooth running of the university.
Zambia
Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
's largest teacher training university, founded in 1971. It has a student population of about 6,000.
Academics
The Nkrumah University is divided into the following departments:- Department of Natural Sciences
- Department of Business StudiesBusiness studiesBusiness studies is an academic subject taught at higher level in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom, as well as at university level in many countries...
- Department of EducationEducationEducation in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- Department of Social SciencesSocial sciencesSocial science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
- Department of Languages
Campus
Its main campus — Munkoyo Street Campus — is about 3 km from KabweKabwe
Kabwe is the capital of the Zambian Central Province with a population estimated at 210,000. Formerly named Broken Hill, it was founded when the Broken Hill lead and zinc deposits were discovered in 1902. Kabwe also has a claim to being the birthplace of Zambian politics...
City. It also just acquired PEDESA Campus along the same street (famously called Pan-African Institute); this campus will help expand the capacity and smooth running of the university.