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Zimbabwe's missing link
IN today's rapidly changing global business environment, organisations are under increasing pressure to remain competitive, innovative and sustainable.Leadership, in its truest sense, has beco...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 08:29hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Slow progress of Nust projects
THE Government has raised concern over the slow pace that the administration at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo is taking in completing key development projects, s...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
51 Zimbabwe parastatals fail to submit financials
A total of fifty-one state-owned enterprises have failed to submit their financial statements for auditing to the Auditor-General, as required by law.The Acting Auditor-General, Mrs. Rhea Kuji...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:40hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Remittances anchor Zimbabwean economy
THE World Bank recently released global diaspora remittance statistics, which show that expatriates from low and middle-income countries sent over US$647 billion to their home countries in 2022....Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:52hrs | 15 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe universities ranked among the best in sub-Saharan Africa
Three Zimbabwean universities have been ranked among the best universities in Africa from 88 universities in 20 countries by the Times Higher Education Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings, demonstr...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:28hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube adds impetus to Nust projects
GOVERNMENT is placing special attention on construction works at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) as it is poised to be a bedrock of the country's industrialisation and mordeni...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NUST enrolment drive seeks to curb Zimbabwe's critical skills deficit
The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has increased the enrolment of medical students and introduced new degree programmes in an effort to counter the country's critical skills defi...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe universities adjust fees structures
STATE universities in the country have raised their tuition fees in line with regional trends to cover operational costs.Lupane State University (LSU) released their new fee's stru...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:43hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Mike Madiro gives up contesting Zanu-PF internal elections
Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial chairman Mike Madiro has vowed not to contest in future highly contentious party elections to allow new leadership to take over.However, the decision has been vie...Published: 13 Jan 2022 at 16:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Treat each unvaccinated case on its merits, says PTUZ
THE Progressive Teachers Union (PTUZ) yesterday vowed that its members who are yet to be vaccinated will continue reporting for duty in defiance of a government directive that unvaccinated civil serva...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Employers adopt no jab, no entry policy
TAKING a cue from government, several companies in Zimbabwe are making proof of vaccination a prerequisite for employees to enter their premises in a bid to curb the spread of the novel virus....Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean engineer runs Afghanistan's gemology plant
A ZIMBABWEAN engineer, Clever Sithole (CS), last year made history when he was appointed head gemologist at a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded gemstone processing proj...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Bulawayo for NUST graduation
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa jetted into Bulawayo yesterday and is today expected to preside over the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) 26th graduation ceremony and later on meet chiefs from...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Varsities resume face-to-face lectures
THE Midlands State University (MSU) has reopened for face-to-face lectures for first year students who will be on campus for two weeks before they start online learning.The university has put ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 19:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Gays and Lesbians targets Zimbabwe universities, colleges
THE Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) has started a process of engaging universities and other higher learning institutions as part of a broader strategy to strengthen academic freedom of members o...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'University loans not for all'
GOVERNMENT says student loans for higher learning institutions will only be accessed by deserving underprivileged learners.The loans are offered to students in State universities, teachers' co...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Transformation: Imparting depth to the economy
Last week closed on a very good note.First, Government announced the much-awaited Diamond Policy.This new policy protects the National Interest, while meeting the expectations of the K...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by President Emmerson D. Mnangagwa
MPs, senators to be sworn-in Wednesday
Newly-elected National Assembly members and senators will take oaths of office on Wednesday next week, Clerk of Parliament Mr Kennedy Chokuda has said. After taking the oaths, the National Ass...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe enters new era for investors
Zimbabwe has entered a new era in which all investment is welcome and its safety guaranteed, and where education should be used as a conduit for employment creation and revival of the economy, Preside...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
674 graduate at Masvingo Poly
674 people graduated at Masvingo Polytechnic College, amid calls from the government for the graduates to embrace lifelong skills that will make them employers rather than employees.It was a d...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe faces huge critical skills shortage'
ZIMBABWE is faced with a huge shortage of critical skills with the highest skills deficit recorded in the Medical and Health Sciences as well Applied and Natural Sciences, the National Skills Audit re...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, UK in talks to bridge skills gap
British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Ms Catriona Laing yesterday paid a courtesy call on Minister of State for Government Scholarships in the Office of the President and Cabinet Dr Christopher Mushohwe to e...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
4 new State universities to open
Government has approved the opening of four new State universities countrywide in a move expected to consolidate Zimbabwe's position as one of the countries with the highest number of institutions of ...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shiri stops farm fights
The Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, Chief Air Marshal (Retired) Perence Shiri, has moved in to stop land fights in Manicaland and warned that the final authority to change owner...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 06:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Robert Mugabe University to cost $1 billion
Zimbabwe announced on Wednesday that it plans to build a $1bn university to honour Robert Mugabe, the 93-year-old president accused of brutal repression and bringing the country to economic ruin....Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 14:24hrs | 1 | by StAgencies
Second university for Manicaland
Manicaland University of Applied Sciences, which all along was being hosted by Midlands State University, is now a stand-alone institution following the recent appointment of a council led by revered ...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe appoints varsity councils
PRESIDENT Mugabe has appointed councils for nine State universities including the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo as well as the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education ...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 06:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
New varsities get peanuts from Treasury
Newly-established universities have cried foul over paltry budget allocations they received for 2017 financial year, arguing the meagre amounts are tantamount to declaring the higher institutions ...Published: 24 Jan 2017 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's JM Nkomo Polytechnic Graduation Speech
ADDRESS BY THE GUEST OF HONOUR, THE MINISTER OF HIGHER AND TERTIARY EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ON "RE–ENGINEERING THE CURRICULUM FOR A SCIENCE AND...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 08:44hrs | 13 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Mugabe assents to three Bills
President Mugabe has assented to three Bills that were recently passed by Parliament, while two Bills have been gazetted and would be tabled before the august House soon for debate. The Head of State ...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 07:49hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Manicaland State varsity to go ahead
The National Assembly has approved the establishment of the Manicaland State University of Applied Sciences, whose programmes are in sync with the country's quest to add value to its natural resources...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Gumbo
Statement from Gwanda Residents Association on the Gwanda State University Bill consultations
The residents of Gwanda condemn to the worst possible scenario the shoddy and unprofessional consultations done by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Higher and Tertiary Education, Science ...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 17:44hrs | | by Aifheli Mudau Gwanda Residents Association, Secretary for Information and Publicity
Mugabe to cap 2 300 at NUST
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is set to cap 2 304 National University of Science and Technology (NUST) graduands at the university's 21st graduation ceremony on Friday.Nust's director of communicati...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 20:59hrs | | by Walter Dlamini
Mugabe expected in Bulawayo on Friday
President Robert Mugabe is expected in Bulawayo on 13 November 2015 for the 21st National University of Science and Technology (Nust) graduation ceremony.The NUST Director of Information and P...Published: 10 Nov 2015 at 10:28hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Jonathan Moyo to increase State universities
The Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Professor Jonathan Moyo says the country is undergoing major transformation in higher education with the number of sta...Published: 27 Sep 2015 at 13:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
African Govts and business leaders join to launch Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund
OHANNESBURG, South-Africa, June 18, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — - $5million committed by African Governments and ‘Africa Business Champions for Science' during launch ho...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 13:46hrs | 1 | by APO
Mujuru, Mnangagwa date MPs
Vice-President Joice Mujuru and Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday met Zanu-PF parliamentarians in Harare to have a postmortem of the last session of Parli...Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Felex Share
Zanu-PF ministers bunk Parliament sessions
THE Second Session of the Eighth Parliament begins next Tuesday amid revelations that some ministers and their deputies bunk Parly sessions in pursuit of personal business.The revelations emer...Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Implementation of the indigenisation policy heavily flawed,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has admitted the implementation of his government's indigenisation policy was heavily flawed, adding that some indigenous businesspersons had capitalised on the legal gaps...Published: 29 Oct 2014 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
South African Critical Skills Visa List
South African Critical Skills Visa List, what you need to know according ...Published: 04 Jun 2014 at 17:31hrs | 3 | by Robbie Ragless
Ministers from Africa, Asia, Latin America Meet to Develop New Partnership for Skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Tech
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - A high-level workshop on a new "Partnership for Skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology in Africa" began today in the Ethiopian capital. The three-day event o...Published: 13 Jul 2013 at 15:21hrs | | by The World Bank
Robert Mugabe's 32nd Independence Day speech - full text
President Robert Mugabe's speech at the National Sports Stadium delivered on April 18, 2012, to mark Zimbabwe's 32nd Independence anniversary:Honourabl...Published: 18 Apr 2012 at 13:26hrs | 3 | by Robert Mugabe
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