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Mugabe caps 2,423 graduands at NUST
03 Nov 2017 at 14:41hrs | Views
The Chancellor for the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), President Robert Mugabe has caped 2 423 students at the institution which is edging towards its national mandate of being a fully fledged science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) university.
In his address at the 23rd graduation ceremony, NUST acting vice-chancellor Professor Samson Sibanda said in its current intake, the university has 2 299 students of which 60 percent totalling 1 376 are in the STEM sectors while 923 students or 40 percent are in the non-STEM disciplines as they work towards the Williams Commission recommendation which stated that the institution's enrolment must be 70 percent STEM.
Professor Sibanda, however, raised concern on the slow pace of infrastructural development at NUST due to lack of resources.
He said the introduction of parallel and block release programmes has helped to afford the working community a chance to gain university education.
As part of its community engagement, NUST through the department of fibre and polymer materials engineering is working with rural communities in hides and skins on value addition and beneficiation to improve the quality of leather products.
In the process they have registered a leather co-operative, octagon which is now producing shoes in Gwanda and Lupane.
Turning to the graduands, Professor Sibanda reminded them to continue improving their education.
Of the total number of the graduating party, 1 616 were undergraduate degrees, 49 post graduate diplomas 733 masters degrees, five masters of philosophy and five doctor of philosophy degrees, who included five international students in a programme that is in collaboration with Ba Isago University of Botswana.
Also graduating for the first time were students in the masters of business administration degree in strategic management and ecotourism and biodiversity.
In his address at the 23rd graduation ceremony, NUST acting vice-chancellor Professor Samson Sibanda said in its current intake, the university has 2 299 students of which 60 percent totalling 1 376 are in the STEM sectors while 923 students or 40 percent are in the non-STEM disciplines as they work towards the Williams Commission recommendation which stated that the institution's enrolment must be 70 percent STEM.
Professor Sibanda, however, raised concern on the slow pace of infrastructural development at NUST due to lack of resources.
He said the introduction of parallel and block release programmes has helped to afford the working community a chance to gain university education.
As part of its community engagement, NUST through the department of fibre and polymer materials engineering is working with rural communities in hides and skins on value addition and beneficiation to improve the quality of leather products.
In the process they have registered a leather co-operative, octagon which is now producing shoes in Gwanda and Lupane.
Turning to the graduands, Professor Sibanda reminded them to continue improving their education.
Of the total number of the graduating party, 1 616 were undergraduate degrees, 49 post graduate diplomas 733 masters degrees, five masters of philosophy and five doctor of philosophy degrees, who included five international students in a programme that is in collaboration with Ba Isago University of Botswana.
Also graduating for the first time were students in the masters of business administration degree in strategic management and ecotourism and biodiversity.
Source - zbc
