Bulawayo Polytechnic graduates 4000 as government pushes STEM, rural industrialisation drive

BULAWAYO, Aug. 14 (NewsDay Live) — Bulawayo Polytechnic graduated 3,917 students on Thursday, with nearly half completing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programmes, as government renewed calls for tertiary institutions to align training with rural industrialisation and digitalisation.

Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development Minister Frederick Shava said the cohort, comprising 1,894 male and 2,023 female graduates, demonstrated the institution’s growing capacity to produce technical skills needed by the country.

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