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The University of Zambia is one of such institutions. Starting from
1991/9d, evry year, the B.Eng. Land Surveying programme will be
offered for the students from the Regional Countries.
£. STATUS OF THE LAND SURVEYING PROGRAMME AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA
£. 1 Background
The idea of Land Surveying education at the Universirty of Zambia was
for the first time proposed in 1976, at the conference ’Development of
Land Resources in East, Central and Southern Africa’. In 1978, a joint
mission of Zambian State Officials and Consultants from the Swedish
International Development Authority (SIDA), discussing support to the
agricultural sector, notified the need to train surveyors in Zambia.
It was found, that only ten lincenced surveyors have been working in
country and none of them had academic education. At the same tine, it
was confirmed, that the demands for survey and mapping services have
being continuously increased. In 198£, within the framework of an
agreement between the Government of Sweden and Zambia, the University
of Zambia obtained the technical support and advice from SIDA, through
the National Land Survey of Sweden, to establish a B.Eng. degree
programme in Land Surveying, in the School of Engineering at UNZA. The
support includes SIDA recruited staff, equipment, consultancy and
staff development training scholarships. During the first few years,
the Land Surveying was within the department of Civil Engineering. In
1988, the seperate department of Surveying was established. Since
1989, the SIDA technical support has been arranged within the
Institutional Cooperation between the School of Surveying of the Royal
Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, and Department of Surveying,
UNZA. In addition, since 1987 the Department of Surveying has also
obtained support from NUFFIC, the Netherlands, regarding the academic
staff, staff development scholarship, books and consumables.
£. £ Curriculum for the B.Eng. degree in Land Surveying
The total programme at UNZA consists of five years of study. After one
year general course in the School of Natural Sciences, students are
admitted to the School of Engineering, where they attend one year
general engineering course. After completion the second year, students
can choose the three years Land Surveying study, as one of six
engineering programmes. A number of students for each programme is
decided by a quota system. Recruitment for the Surveying Programme is
up to 10 % of a total number of students in the School of Engineering.
The actual students enrolment is given in table 1.
Year
82/83 83/84
84/65
85/86
86/87
87/88
88/89
89/90
No. of
7 7
6
5
-
7
8
7
enrol, stud.
No. of
- -
7
5
5
-
4
grad.stud.
About 90 ‘A of graduate students have been employed by the governmental
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