Charmaine Brown and Natasha Kokai
Government is set to engage investors to develop state-of-the-art infrastructure for higher and tertiary education institutions through public-private partnerships, as part of the attainment of Vision 2030.
Speaking during the Youth Empowerment and Transformation Trust breakfast meeting in Harare recently, Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development deputy director Ms Maria Adriano said the ministry was set to engage various investors to discuss how to develop formal infrastructure for education.
The breakfast meeting was organised by the Students’ Academic Freedom Regional Advocacy Programme in order to discuss issues concerning student academic freedom.
“The ministry shall engage investors to develop state-of-the-art infrastructure for higher and tertiary education institutions through public-private partnerships, Build, Operate and Transfer and other transfer arrangements,” said Ms Adriano.
“The inter-linkages of our institutions of higher learning both in research collaborations and credit transfer to enable student mobility as guided by the Zimbabwe National Qualifications Framework shall be key in turning the higher and tertiary education, science and technology development sector into an export product.”
Ms Adriano said the main aim was to cultivate an inspiring environment for nurturing students.
She said the ministry adopted two additional missions that are innovation and industrialisation, effectively reorienting Education 3.0 to Education 5.0 in order to deliver a competitive, industrialised and modernised Zimbabwe.