THE DEAN OF STUDENTS PROFILE

BRIEF PROFILE

NAME: DR. BENSON SIMANGO

CURRENT POSITION: DEAN OF STUDENTS AFFAIRS

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

1984: completed form five (grade 12) and obtained a school certificate.

1989: completed teacher training course and awarded a diploma

in secondary school teaching from nkrumah teachers’ college.

1999: graduated at university of zambia (unza), school of education

b.a. ed.

2007: graduated at national university of ireland – university college dublin (ucd).

MAJOR FIELD OF STUDY:

§  educational leadership and management

– creating the effective school

– educational leadership and school development planning

– leadership and changing contexts

– educational management in practice and

– group dynamics.

§  OTHERS:

-research training (qualitative and quantitative methods)

– ethics and human relations in educational research

– principles and practice of academic writing

– research design

– analysis of qualitative and quantitative data

– action research

– questionnaire design; coding and analyzing using spss

– statistical testing in educational research and project presentations.

§  ethical and political issues in education

– traditions of thought in moral philosophy

– liberalism and its philosophical critiques

– rights and education.

– counselling psychology

– the nature of counselling

– the egan skilled helper model

– rational emotive behaviour therapy and cognitive behaviour

-reality therapy

– solution focused brief therapy

– counselling model for schools

– bereavement and suicide therapy.

2016: graduated at university of south africa (unisa), college of education

DOCTOR OF EDUCATION (D. ED). IN EDUCATION MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP.

– transformational leadership theory

– transactional leadership theory

– situational leadership theory

– servant leadership theory

– management theories

– classical management theory

– scientific management theory

– administrative management theory

– bureaucratic management theory

EMPLOYMENT/ CAREER BACKGROUND

1990: started work as a secondary school teacher

1992: appointed guidance and counselling teacher

2001: appointed careers master at macha secondary school

2003: appointed senior lecturer (languages) at david livingstone college of

education.

2004: appointed college counsellor at david livingstone college of

EDUCATION.

2008: appointed lecturer at copperbelt college of education (cosetco) in

education department with a bias towards educational management.

2016: appointed acting dean of students affairs at mukuba university by interim

council.

2017: re-appointed acting dean of students affairs at mukuba university under new management.

2020: substantively appointed dean of students affairs at mukuba university to date