Kinshasa, April 26th, 2021 (CPA).- The rector of the University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN), Prof. Daniel Ngoma-Ya-Nzuzi, on Saturday conferred the degrees of doctoral thesis, Graduates of in-depth studies (DEA) and graduates to the two thousand sixty-eight (2068) laureates of the 2019-2020 academic year from different faculties organized within this alma mater, during the double closing ceremony of the year and the symbolic presentation of the diplomas to these finalists. These are 108 PhDs with theses and aggregated of higher Education in medicine, 119 Graduates of Advanced Studies (DEA) as well as graduates, doctors of medicine, engineers, pharmacists, etc., from the faculties law, letters and human sciences, economics and management, social, administrative and political sciences, psychology and educational science, sciences, agricultural sciences, oil, gas and new energies, medicine veterinary, pharmaceutical sciences, polytechnics and medicine.
In his general policy speech, the rector of UNIKIN, Prof. Ngoma, stressed that his institution had benefited from the outgoing Minister of Higher and University Education (ESU), a derogation to be able to readjust the calendar of activities. Academic, given the difficult and very particular situation related to the delay in the academic calendar 20219-2020. This delay is due, according to him, in particular to successive strikes due to problems of remuneration and reimbursement of overpayments on teachers’ vehicles, the closure of the UNIKIN from January 6th to February 21st, 2020 following acts of vandalism that caused the death of men on the site, the suspension of academic activities from March 19 to October 01, 2020 and from January 18th, 2021 to January 25th, 2021 following the COVID-19 pandemic.
He congratulated and encouraged the laureates of the said academic year, inviting them to be comprehensive, competent, job creators and true ambassadors by defending the honor and greatness of UNIKIN, to integrate into the world of work. with a lot of optimism and personal initiatives. « The real university begins now for you, you have to put into practice what you have learned during your time at university, » he said. Establishment of a website at UNIKIN for its visibility to international standards In addition, Rector Ngoma-Ya-Nzuzi said that thanks to the efforts of the management committee he heads that a website has been put online through the back-bone network to ensure the visibility of his institution on the international chessboard. « All the efforts which will constitute a plus for the community should be put in the public place via the new website so as to make our university visible and permanently », he insisted. The management committee has always aimed, he continued, to keep UNIKIN in the line of excellence traced by its founders, by committing to offer quality education and training through creativity, innovation and excellence and a haven of peace on the university site.
The management committee intends to continue its efforts for sanitation, electrification, rehabilitation of the roads of the university site, he stressed, before particularly thanking the President of the Republic, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi for having decided to refurbish student residences that had long remained in disrepair and advanced dilapidation. The academic secretary general of UNIKIN, Prof. Eustache Banza Nsomwe returned, in his academic report, to the need for internationalization and digitization of UNIKIN by making all current information from academic and scientific bodies accessible. , even students as well as publications.
Linking all faculties to the LMD system Prof. Eustache Banza Nsomwe spoke about the project to link all the faculties of UNIKIN into the Bachelor-Master-Doctorate (LMD) education system after the evaluation of the current experimental phase.
This LMD system already in use in the faculties of sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, agronomic sciences and polytechnics as part of the Education Project for the quality and relevance of teaching at secondary and university levels (PEQPESU) initiated by the government with the support of the World Bank. He also underlined the efforts to be made to finalize the projects for the computerization of the registration system and the management of academic data, the introduction of the hybrid distance learning system and support for the Quality Assurance Unit. .
50 deceased teachers
The management committee further indicated that during the academic year 2019-2020, 50 members of the academic and scientific staff died during the exercise of their functions. There are 37 professors and 13 assistants and supervisors.
The UNIKIN functioned during the said year with a staff of 1138 (one thousand one hundred and thirty-eight) professors, 1470 (one thousand four hundred and seventy) assistants and heads of work, 30,000 (thirty thousand) students of which 19,482 paid the totality , or a portion of the study costs. The lack of operating subsidies, research subsidies, the dilapidated state of the library, the lack of infrastructure, particularly roads, are all constraints mentioned by the management committee.
In addition, the management committee intends to continue the UNIKIN-BCDC-CFAO teachers’ vehicle credit projects. It was also, materialized during this academic year, the installation phase of 13 large boreholes for the regular distribution of water on the Teachers’ Plateau, the assignment of the agents of the administrative, technical and worker body long remained awaiting assignment and other COVID-19 activities at the university site. The administrative secretary general, Prof. Godefroid Kabengele Dibwe and the budget administrator, Christine Paoni Basosila, are part of this management committee.
