Category Archives: News

The Warm Heart of Africa: A Tribute to Dr Melanie Hami

It was with great sadness we heard on 19th March of the passing of our colleague and friend Dr Melanie Hami, Head of Midwifery at the Kamuzu College of Nursing, Blantyre, University of Malawi. Dr Hami has been associated with the University of Edinburgh e-learning projects from the very beginning in 2007. She was always supportive […]

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The 10 ways Scotland has helped Malawi

To mark 10 years of the Scotland Malawi Partnership the Herald Scotland newspaper has published an article titled “The 10 ways Scotland has helped Malawi”. Our projects have been recognised in this list for the work carried out in building capacity to increase the number of medical students graduating from the College of Medicine. “Training a new generation […]

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ICCHNR Conference, Seoul National University

Two of our colleagues from the Kamuzu College of Nursing, Gladys Msiska, and Melanie Hami, were invited to present at the ICCHNR Conference at Seoul National University. Their presentation gave an overview of our current project specifically looking at the process of transforming the education and training of clinical professionals who deliver maternal and child […]

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College of Medicine trial electronic assessment

Our recent visit to Blantyre coincided with student exams for the BSc Clinical Officer programmes. We were able to use this opportunity to deliver one of our project milestones; to successfully deliver a trial of computer based assessment for a summative exam. 11 students from BSc Anaesthesia completed their end of year assessment from one […]

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Conference Presentation

Introducing e-learning to a resource poor country – a case study in Malawi The Project Director, Professor David Dewhurst, was invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the #design4learning: from blended learning to learning analytics in HE conference (http://design4learning.org.uk) held at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK from 26-27 November 2014. His lecture described the activities, achievements […]

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Visit to Blantyre – Oct/Nov 2014

A team of Edinburgh academic and technical staff, David Dewhurst, Ross Ward, and Brendan Owers, recently visited Blantyre to work with College of Medicine and Kamuzu College of Nursing over a 2 week period from 20th October. They were joined on this occasion by David Davies, a physiologist with extensive e-learning and medical education experience […]

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UNIMA Professorial Inaugural Lectures

Congratulations to Prof Address Malata and Prof Ellen Chirwa who have recently been awarded Professorships at the University of Malawi. Both Address and Ellen will preset their inaugural lectures at the 14th University of Malawi Professorial Inaugural Lectures ceremony and the official launch of the PhD in Interprofessional Health Care Leadership event taking place in […]

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Prof Malata elected Vice President of the Global Midwifery body ICM

Prof Address Malata, who is the Principal of KCN and the KCN lead for our project has been elected as Vice President of the ICM, which is a Global Midwifery body. This news was announced at the ICM conference which took place in Prague this June. We wish Prof Malata all the best in this […]

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ICT team members visit Edinburgh

We were delighted to have Demster Ngauma and Joel Kumwenda visit the Learning Technology Section earlier this month for a week.  The focus of this visit was to help develop the COMPASS (virtual learning environment) system and ensure that there were adequate training materials in place to support the staff and students who will be […]

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Dr Kalongolera completes MSc Surgical Sciences

Dr Lughano Kalongolera, who lives in Malawi, has spent three years studying for an MSc in surgical sciences from Edinburgh University. The qualification is offered jointly by the university and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Dr Kalongolera travelled to Edinburgh for his graduation ceremony. The part-time distance-learning programme began in 2006 and now […]

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