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UNIVERSITY NEWS |
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TGOU Lakeside Dedication Ceremony On September 10. Our Honoured Cheif Guest awarded ..
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ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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The Global Open University has undertaken major expansion plans. The university Chancellor |
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UPCOMING EVENTS |
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TGOU'll be defending the National
Champions. On Saturday at 1 p.m. |
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| Chancellor's Message |
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Chancellor’s Message
As the human race has ventured into a new century, conversations and news reports are peppered with references to our fragile and endangered planet. The earth is five billion years old, and over the eons it has endured bombardment by meteors, abrupt shifts in its magnetic fields, dramatic realignment of its land masses, and the advance and retreat of massive ice mountains that reshaped its surface. Life, too, has proved resilient: In the more than three and a half billion years first forms of life emerged, biological species have come and gone, but life has persisted without interruption. In fact, no matter what we humans do, it is unlikely that we could suppress the chemical forces that drive the earth system.
Although we cannot completely disrupt the earth system, we do affect it significantly as we use energy and emit pollutants in our quest to provide food, shelter, and a host of other products for the world's growing population. |
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We release chemicals that gnaw holes in the ozone shield that protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation, and we burn fuels that emit heat - trapping gases that may build up in the atmosphere. Our ever expanding numbers overtax the agricultural potential of the land. Tropical forests that are home for millions of biological species are cleared for agriculture, grazing, and logging. Raw materials are drawn from the earth to stoke the engines of the growing world economy, and we treat the atmosphere, land, and waters as receptacles for the wastes generated as we consume energy and goods in our everyday lives.
It is in this context that The Global Open University has been established at Lusaka, Zambia under the provisions of the Universities and other Tertiary Institutions Act, 2001 of the Government of Zambia with a view to providing proper education and training to the accomplished individuals, enabling them to guide the human race living in a historic transitional period of burgeoning awareness of the conflict between human activities and environmental constraints, preparing to venture into a new century and a new millennium and to finally help save the fragile and endangered planet with the natural resources already overtaxed. It’s my previlidge to welcome you to be the part of this great institution.
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