zimbabwe - UCU

This paper about Zimbabwe is a chapter from alarger report looking at academic freedom in fivecountries (the others are Burma, Colombia, Israeland Palestine), which has been made available asfive individual ‘single country’ chapters for quickerdownloading and easier reading. The other fourchapters, as well as the whole report, can bedownloaded from UCU’s website at www.ucu.org.uk.Author’s biographical noteJames Cemmell (jamespearl@hotmail.com) presently works asa regulatory consultant in London, UK. His longstanding interestin internationalism in the higher education sector wasstimulated while a student at the University of Leeds. Upongraduation in 2000 he was elected as the sabbatical EducationOfficer at Leeds University Union and was subsequentlyelected as Convenor of West Yorks Area NUS. He completed afour year appointment at ESU/ESIB (European StudentUnion) to a committee concerned with emerging policy practicesand regulatory frameworks in international educa-tion.Along the way he completed an MA in International Developmentat the University of Bradford and spent a year at theUniversity of Bristol in the Graduate School of EducationCentre for Globalisation, Education and Societies where hepursued diverse interests in the GATS, Bologna and higher educationreform issues in Kosovo. When time, family and injuriespermit, James pursues interests in Shotokan Karate.James Cemmell asserts his moral right to be identified as the authorof this study.