The Manica Post

A hub of STEM education

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MUTARE Polytechni­c is forging ahead with a clear vision of the training of STEM- compliant, knowledgea­ble, well-skilled innovative, dedicated and patriotic artisans who in turn will produce technologi­cal and engineerin­g solutions to the community and societal challenges.

This is concretise­d through a Technical Vocational Education Training system ( TVET) curricu- lum that is fully STEM-itised to enhance modern technologi­cal competence­s grounded into unhu/ubuntu.

It was designed to produce cutting-edge artisans, technician­s and technologi­sts for the industrial­isation and modernisat­ion of Zimbabwe fashioned by the overall Zim-Asset agenda and the Sadc Protocol as well as the AU’s Agenda 2063.

With this aim in mind, all current students are engaged in projects that expose them to reallife experience­s in communitie­s through the establishm­ent of business incubators.

By the end of the training, these students would be self-sufficient, having their own start-up capital to start their own business.

Passing through STEM- itised curricular has empowered them to be job creators and not job seekers.

To support the STEM initiative, the students are engaged in practicals such as the moulding of car canopies with plans to go commercial at an advanced stage, more practicals are also done in constructi­on works and furniture works under the watchful eye n of college lecturers.

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