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University names new school after Robert Mugabe
11 Nov 2015 at 05:24hrs | Views
GREAT Zimbabwe University (GZU) is building a state-of-the-art School of Education named after President Robert Mugabe.
The school, Robert Mugabe School of Education, is nearing completion ahead of its expected opening next year.
A visit to the site in the industrial area yesterday revealed that the project is almost 90 percent complete.
GZU Vice Chancellor Professor Rungano Zvobgo said they named the school after the luminary as a way to reaffirm the university's focus to produce top graduates.
Prof Zvobgo said President Mugabe is a scholar par excellence throughout Africa and the naming of the school was a way of honouring the President's achievements in the area of education.
He said the cost of the project had been reduced given that the university provides bricks from its own brick making initiative and some materials have been donated by strategic partners.
He said the university is happy to be associated with the man whose astute leadership skills and vision in education has proved to be second to none in the entire Sadc region and beyond.
"We are giving honour to both living and late luminaries as a university through naming faculties after them. With the assistance of our parent ministry's department of Manpower Training and Development, we are currently constructing the iconic, Robert Mugabe School of Education which will be like no other in the region, to celebrate God's gift of our President to this nation," said Prof Zvobgo.
"Education is his passion and we have made it our responsibility to turn that passion into visible reality. We continue to live President Mugabe's dream and walk with him as we strive to develop the country's human capital base."
He said the infrastructure will be a gesture to the President's astute leadership skills and unparalleled vision in academic matters.
"Imagine this was some ramshackle building which we have turned into a magnificent attraction.
The idea is to provide enough learning space for the student and above all add honour to our President in style," he said.
Prof Zvobgo said they have renamed the law school after the late national hero Herbert Chitepo, the country's first black lawyer.
"Further to the Herbert Chitepo Law School, which was officially commissioned by the President last year, we will have the following, Gary Magadzire School of Agriculture and Natural Sciences. This is named after the late Gary Magadzire who was long-serving Zimbabwe National Farmers' Union president and was declared a national hero.
Joshua Nkomo School of Arts and Humanities, named after the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo who helped in uniting Zimbabweans from different cultural persuasions," he said.
The School of Culture and Heritage Studies will be the Muzenda School of Culture and Heritage Studies after late Vice President Simon Muzenda in recognition of his efforts in promoting culture; Munhumutapa School of Commerce has been named after Munhumutapa who established a world trade centre which linked Zimbabwe with Asia, Europe and the Arab world.
The school, Robert Mugabe School of Education, is nearing completion ahead of its expected opening next year.
A visit to the site in the industrial area yesterday revealed that the project is almost 90 percent complete.
GZU Vice Chancellor Professor Rungano Zvobgo said they named the school after the luminary as a way to reaffirm the university's focus to produce top graduates.
Prof Zvobgo said President Mugabe is a scholar par excellence throughout Africa and the naming of the school was a way of honouring the President's achievements in the area of education.
He said the cost of the project had been reduced given that the university provides bricks from its own brick making initiative and some materials have been donated by strategic partners.
He said the university is happy to be associated with the man whose astute leadership skills and vision in education has proved to be second to none in the entire Sadc region and beyond.
"We are giving honour to both living and late luminaries as a university through naming faculties after them. With the assistance of our parent ministry's department of Manpower Training and Development, we are currently constructing the iconic, Robert Mugabe School of Education which will be like no other in the region, to celebrate God's gift of our President to this nation," said Prof Zvobgo.
He said the infrastructure will be a gesture to the President's astute leadership skills and unparalleled vision in academic matters.
"Imagine this was some ramshackle building which we have turned into a magnificent attraction.
The idea is to provide enough learning space for the student and above all add honour to our President in style," he said.
Prof Zvobgo said they have renamed the law school after the late national hero Herbert Chitepo, the country's first black lawyer.
"Further to the Herbert Chitepo Law School, which was officially commissioned by the President last year, we will have the following, Gary Magadzire School of Agriculture and Natural Sciences. This is named after the late Gary Magadzire who was long-serving Zimbabwe National Farmers' Union president and was declared a national hero.
Joshua Nkomo School of Arts and Humanities, named after the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo who helped in uniting Zimbabweans from different cultural persuasions," he said.
The School of Culture and Heritage Studies will be the Muzenda School of Culture and Heritage Studies after late Vice President Simon Muzenda in recognition of his efforts in promoting culture; Munhumutapa School of Commerce has been named after Munhumutapa who established a world trade centre which linked Zimbabwe with Asia, Europe and the Arab world.
Source - chronicle
