THE Midlands State University (MSU) has sent all deans in the degree faculties to India to learn how entrepreneurial skills can be woven into academic studies, acting vice-chancellor, Victor Muzvidziwa has said.
BY Stephen Chadenga
Muzvidziwa said following the engagement, all faculties are now expected to include developmental projects that can be linked to local needs in their studies.
He said the thrust was to nurture a new type of graduate, who is not just a job seeker, but an employer.
“Rallying around the MSU motto, Our hands, our minds, our destiny, which dove-tails well with the thrust of our well-thought out ministry for leasing on psychomotor activities in education, as well as the successful and countrywide, Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) initiative by our own minister, we are certainly embracing a paradigm shift that is intended to produce a more productive and entrepreneurial human capital that has a changed mind-set,” he said.
“At out level, as a university, we decided to invest in the dispatching of all our academic deans to India to learn, at close range, how these issues have been productively woven in the mandates of the institutions of higher learning of that prosperous nation.”
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Muzvidziwa said the faculty of mining and mineral processing engineering was setting up business incubation facilities for students in partnership with the mining industry and the Mines and Mining Development ministry. He also said the faculty of medicine enrolled its first students this year.
Meanwhile President Robert Mugabe last Friday capped 4 708 graduands, comprising of 2 349 females and 2 359 males with 3 988 receiving undergraduate degrees.
A total of 713 students, who included Zanu PF MP and former Information minister, Webster Shamu graduated with masters degrees, while seven staff members attained doctorate degrees.