Prof. Rosemary Moyana - Pro Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs

Rosemary Moyana is Pro Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs at the University of Zimbabwe where she guides Faculties on the programmatic approach to academic business. She is an Associate Professor of English and former Dean of Education at the University of Zimbabwe. She holds four degrees, namely, DPhil (UZ); M.A. (Univ. of Zimbabwe); M.A. (West Chester, USA); B.A. and a Teaching Certificate (Lincoln Univ. USA).

Professor Moyana’s career started in the Teachers Colleges where she taught for 10 years from January 1977. She joined the University of Zimbabwe in January 1988 teaching Literature in English and English Pedagogy. She has participated successfully in national and international research projects such as the IEA Reading Literacy study whose output was an award winning book entitled, Reading Literacy at Junior Secondary School Level in Zimbabwe. From 2012 to 2017 she participated in Tuning Africa, an international research project focusing on competences in education and harmonisation of university education. For this project output Professor Moyana contributed to its Phase I publication; contributed and co-edited the Phase II publication of 2018 entitled, Design and Implementation of Degree Programmes in Teacher Education Phase II. She also received a Tuning Certificate of Participation for successfully completing an online course on “design for outcomes based learning in higher education,” in 2016. Prof Moyana has over 30 publications in Literature and English pedagogy. She has two daughters and two granddaughters.