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Land ownership key to Zimbabwe's industrialisation
Zimbabwe Lands Commission (ZLC) Commissioner Rosemary Choruma Dowa has underscored the critical role of land ownership in Zimbabwe's industrialisation agenda, urging citizens to leverage the title dee...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 08:37hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe unveils Indigenous Higher Education System
The Government has officially launched DuraIsiphala263, a homegrown Higher Education Management Information System (HEMIS) designed to revolutionise data collection, analysis, and decision-making in Z...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 08:37hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cracks down on fake PhDs
The Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE) has raised alarm over the rising number of unregistered institutions operating illegally, issuing fraudulent undergraduate and postgraduate qualifica...Published: 24 Mar 2025 at 10:13hrs | 17399 | by Staff reporter
A Step in the Right Direction, but Long Overdue
Zimbabwe's higher education sector has been plagued by a silent but dangerous crisis, the rampant issuance and use of fraudulent qualifications. It is, therefore, commendable that the Zimbabwe C...Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 20:55hrs | 749 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
University of Matopo gets approved
Matabeleland South province is set to have a third higher education institution following the approval of a proposal to establish the University of Matopo. The new university, an expansion of the Bret...Published: 02 Feb 2025 at 17:28hrs | 3225 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean authorities remove 7 universities from accredited list
The Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE) has announced the removal of seven universities in India and Cyprus from its official list of accredited institutions. This decision comes in the wak...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:17hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Nust medicine enrolment increases
Destiny Mlilo started his life-long ambition of being a medical doctor on Tuesday as part of 60 first-year School of Medicine students at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bu...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students stuck in Turkey
CYPRUS has said students lured to the country on dubious scholarship programmes are held in prisons in the Northern region of that country which is under the "illegal" control of neighbouring Turkey....Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 19:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blacklist for tender cheats
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is looking at blacklisting tender cheats despite improvements in the processes that have seen all suppliers having to be vetted before they are allowed t...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:10hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Eng Tamsanqa Mpala is the new President of the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineer
Engineer Tamsanqa Mpala, is the President of the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers for the term 2021-2023. Eng. Mpala is a registered, professional civil engineer with 22 years' post graduate experien...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 19:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prof Zandile Moyo appointed Gwanda State University VC
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has appointed Professor Doreen Zandile Moyo as the new Vice-Chancellor of Gwanda State University (GSU). Her appointment is with effect from March 1. Before her appointment...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZOU e-learning portal experiences glitches
ZIMBABWE Open University (ZOU) students yesterday raised concern over the malfunctioning e-learning system at the institution ahead of end of semester examinations this month-end.ZOU acting sp...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Academic fraud of satanic proportions exposed in Harare
Former top manager at the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE), Florence Chimbumu, who was exposed recently for using fake certificates when only a single Ordinary Level pass could be certif...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Govt wants Telecel, Econet, NetOne to comply
GOVERNMENT officials rebuked each other during an information communication technology (ICT) summit in Nyanga last week, with one ministry demanding explanation over delays in infrastructure sharing b...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
MSU degrees chaos divide government
THE discontinuation of the Midlands State University (MSU) media programme has reportedly divided government with stakeholders alleging that the move was political, ill-advised and meant to weaken the...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Senior manager lived large with one O-Level
The former top operations manager at the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (Zimche), Mrs Florence Chimbunu, who was exposed recently for using allegedly fake certificates when only a single O-Leve...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over MSU degrees scrapping chaos
LOCAL and media scholars in the diaspora have come out guns blazing, blasting the unilateral decision by authorities to change the Midlands State University Department of Media and Society Studies cur...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 13:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MSU lecturers threaten to resign en masse
MEDIA lecturers at the Midlands State University have threatened to resign en masse in protest over curriculum changes they say were unilateral and without their input.NewsDay gathered that mo...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Judicial officer in court over fake degrees
A TOP official in the Justice ministry who operated a bogus theological college offering fake degrees to unsuspecting people in and around Marondera, was on Friday arraigned before magistrate Rumbidza...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZRP to offer degree in police studies
Police Staff College principal, Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba yesterday said the college had been granted authority to offer Bachelor in Adult Education honours degree in police studies by t...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 07:17hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD Professor retires
The Chairman of the University of Zimbabwe Council, Dr Anxious J Masuka wishes to inform the University community, stakeholders and the public that Professor L.M. Nyagura retired as Vice Chancellor of...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Teachers resist Govt's Teaching Profession Council
The mooted Teaching Profession Council Bill which would give birth to the Teaching Profession Council (TPC) has been resisted by the Progressive Teachers' Union (PTUZ) which sees the move a dangerous ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 13:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of useless degrees and of abandoning national mandates
The recent Hardtalk by Professor Amon Murwira, Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development on "Zimbabwe to scrap useless degrees" makes for serious thinking.J...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 09:27hrs | 12 | by Enock Jonathan
Mnangagwa govt tightens screws on teachers
GOVERNMENT yesterday started public hearings to solicit people's views on the establishment of the Teaching Profession Council (TPC) that will require teachers to seek an annually renewable teaching p...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 10:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt under fire over plans to scrap 'useless' degrees
CIVIC society, human rights groups and students have slammed government plans to scrap what it termed "useless" degrees from State universities, saying the move might impact negatively on those that h...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staf reporter
Zimbabwe to scrap useless degrees
Government is actively reviewing degrees offered by State universities with a view to standardising qualifications and abolish 'irrelevant' programmes that are ostensibly creating 'idle' graduates who...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dzvimbo named new Zimche CEO
Academic Kuzvinetsa Dzvimbo has been officially appointed as the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (Zimche) chief executive officer (CEO) by the Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technolo...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 00:08hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Doctors in Zimbabwe train for seven years
Doctors in Zimbabwe train for seven years, including the two years of internship also known as housemanship, hence those calling themselves junior doctors are in fact, still students, the Zimbabwe Cou...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 23:59hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Prof Phineas Makhurane declared National hero
ZANU PF Politiburo has declared the late academic Professor Phineas Makhurane a National Hero. This was announced by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services on Thursday....Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Prof Peter Dzvimbo appointed CEO of ZIMCHE
Professor Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo has been appointed as the CEO of the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE) with immediate effect.Celebrating the appointment former minister of high...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 14:51hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Harare Poly gets nod to offer media degree
Harare Polytechnic is expected to start offering a Mass Communication and Media Technologies degree soon, with college principal Dr Engineer Tafadzwa Mudondo confirming the development last week. ...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZOU to partner ZIMCHE, AAU in four day workshop
The Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) in collaboration with the Association of African Universities (AAU) and the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE), will host a four day Research Method work...Published: 18 May 2018 at 13:25hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Curriculum overhaul for tertiary institutions
THE Government has begun reviewing the curriculum framework for universities, teachers' colleges and polytechnics to align the country's higher education system with international standards, a Cabinet...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Scrap Mathematics': Relax college entry requirements, says Murwira
HIGHER and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Amon Murwira has said tertiary institutions must scrap Mathematics as a requirement for students to study programme...Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Dzamara's disputed doctorate degree, the FACTS
Zimbabwean activist and citizen resistance movement leader Patson Dzamara has for the first time spoken about his doctorate and the controversy surrounding it.Dzamara's educational qualificati...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 16:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe lifts freeze on academic staff recruitment
PRESIDENT Mugabe has lifted the freeze on academic staff recruitment for all programmes that have been approved by the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE).Speaking during the 8th gr...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimche bemoans decline of education quality in Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (Zimche) has expressed concern over the sharp decline in the quality of graduates churned out by local universities.Speaking during a Higher and Terti...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 08:31hrs | 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
Unqualified teachers redeployed
THE Civil Service Commission has started the process of redeploying teachers who hold non-teaching qualifications as part of the Government's staff rationalisation programme recommended in the Civil S...Published: 07 May 2017 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Varsity stopped from enrolling law students
The Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (Zimche) has stopped Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University from enrolling law students because its law school has not yet been approved.The university flig...Published: 02 Feb 2016 at 05:14hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Jonathan Moyo tells private universities to reduce tuition fees
THE Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Professor Jonathan Moyo has castigated private universities for charging exorbitant tuition fees, saying they are not ...Published: 21 Dec 2015 at 03:58hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Fake degrees flood Zimbabwe
Education-hungry and title-seeking Zimbabweans have been warned against acquiring educational qualifications from dubious local and international institutions as they will not be recognised in the cou...Published: 16 Dec 2015 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-NUST VC, Ndlovu buried
Former National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Vice Chancellor, Professor Lindela Ndlovu, who died last week, has been laid to rest at Lady Stanley cemetery in Bulawayo, amid calls for so...Published: 22 Nov 2015 at 13:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Relief for ZOU graduates
ZOU Vice Chancellor Professor Primrose Kurasha has said ay All Zimbabwe Open University graduates who were affected by the suspension of the Diploma in (Primary) Education are now employed after t...Published: 24 Jul 2015 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ban on ZOU diplomas lifted
Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE) has lifted the suspension on the Diploma in Education (Primary) offered by the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU).In a statement, ZIMCHE said the fou...Published: 06 Jul 2015 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Yoliswa Dube
ZOU defends credibility of degrees
THE Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) has challenged the public's negative perceptions about the credibility of the institution's academic programmes saying its courses met all required standards....Published: 16 Feb 2015 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe caps 1 063 at GZU
President Mugabe yesterday conferred degrees on 1 063 graduates, including veteran musician Oliver Mtukudzi who received an honorary degree, at Great Zimbabwe University's eighth graduation ceremony i...Published: 01 Nov 2014 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Oliver Mtukudzi to get 'real' PhD
ICONIC musician Oliver Mtukudzi is set to get the perfect recognition on Friday where he is expected to be conferred with an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree by the Great Zimbabwe University (GZU)...Published: 30 Oct 2014 at 16:29hrs | | by Staff reporte
UZ vice-chancellor under fire over Grace's PhD
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice-chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura, in the eye of a storm after the university controversially conferred First Lady Grace Mugabe with a doctor of philosophy degree, is ...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 09:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mtukudzi doctorate 'null and void'
THE Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (Zimche) has warned high-profile people who were awarded honorary doctorates by the International Institute of Philanthropy (IIP) to desist from using the ti...Published: 28 Jul 2014 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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