Inside the UB crisis

 At the heart of the problem is a tussle over the control of the University between the academics and the team of management executives. A study conducted by a de-facto committee of lecturers that covered issues ranging from the operations of the university, its performance and comparison with other varsities in the SADC region and the commonwealth revealed that the University is top-heavy and spends most of its limited resources not on academic work but on service departments led by highly paid directors.

This research seems to tally with an independent enquiry into the workings of the UB, conducted by the Centre for Higher Education Transformation, which found that UB had a high number of management executives compared to academic staff.