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Three more Zimbabwe universities on cards
20 Sep 2014 at 06:39hrs | Views
Matabeleland South, Mashonaland East and Manicaland will soon have state universities and the project should be complete by 2015 according to Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Dr Godfrey Gandawa.
He said Bills for the establishment of the state universities in the three remaining provinces were at various advanced stages of being adopted and will be turned into charters soon.
"I can confirm that the establishment of state universities in the provinces of Mash East, Manicaland and Mat South is now in its advanced stages. We already have universities in these provinces that are only waiting to be affirmed as state universities," said Dr Gandawa.
He said in Manicaland there was now the Manicaland University which is being managed by the Midlands State University (MSU).
In Matabeleland South there was the Gwanda State University housed at Epoch Mine and administered by the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) while in Mashonaland East there was the Mashonaland East University of Agriculture Science which he said will soon be declared a state university.
From one university at Independence in 1980, the country now has a state university in all but the three provinces.
He said Bills for the establishment of the state universities in the three remaining provinces were at various advanced stages of being adopted and will be turned into charters soon.
"I can confirm that the establishment of state universities in the provinces of Mash East, Manicaland and Mat South is now in its advanced stages. We already have universities in these provinces that are only waiting to be affirmed as state universities," said Dr Gandawa.
In Matabeleland South there was the Gwanda State University housed at Epoch Mine and administered by the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) while in Mashonaland East there was the Mashonaland East University of Agriculture Science which he said will soon be declared a state university.
From one university at Independence in 1980, the country now has a state university in all but the three provinces.
Source - chronicle
