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Over 5000 students benefit from STEM initiative
05 Oct 2016 at 18:55hrs | Views
The government has spent more than US$4 million for school fees payment of students qualified for the STEM initiative since its inception in January this year.
The Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Dr Godfrey Gandawa revealed this at the STEM prize handover ceremony held at Lupane State University Campus.
5 132 students from 265 schools countrywide have benefited so far from over US$4 million that has gone towards school fees payments under the stem initiative.
Dr Gandawa who officiated the 9th STEM prize handover ceremony at Lupane says the country has suffered due to a curriculum that promoted memorising of information yet the same students failed to put the knowledge into practice at the work place.
"What we want now is a curriculum which will ensure that there is no room for memorisation. You find that when these people get to work, they can only be operators of machinery but what we want are people who are innovative and will design new equipment using that knowledge," he said.
The STEM initiative is not meant to provide assistance to less privileged students but is a deliberate move by government to promote an education that guarantees a rich supply base of Zimbabwe's future generations of wealth creators.
A total of 21 students from various schools across the seven districts of Matabeleland North province walked away with prizes after they excelled in a STEM competition.
Kudakwashe Makusha of Marist Brothers got the biggest prize and will join students from nine other provinces who will visit Silicon Valley in the United States.
The Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Dr Godfrey Gandawa revealed this at the STEM prize handover ceremony held at Lupane State University Campus.
5 132 students from 265 schools countrywide have benefited so far from over US$4 million that has gone towards school fees payments under the stem initiative.
Dr Gandawa who officiated the 9th STEM prize handover ceremony at Lupane says the country has suffered due to a curriculum that promoted memorising of information yet the same students failed to put the knowledge into practice at the work place.
The STEM initiative is not meant to provide assistance to less privileged students but is a deliberate move by government to promote an education that guarantees a rich supply base of Zimbabwe's future generations of wealth creators.
A total of 21 students from various schools across the seven districts of Matabeleland North province walked away with prizes after they excelled in a STEM competition.
Kudakwashe Makusha of Marist Brothers got the biggest prize and will join students from nine other provinces who will visit Silicon Valley in the United States.
Source - ZBC
