President Mnangagwa yesterday challenged universities to stop taking pride in high enrolment figures and glamorous infrastructure and focus on providing answers to the country’s aspirations.
He said this in his acceptance speech after being installed Great Zimbabwe University Chancellor at the institution’s 12th graduation ceremony.
The President was installed the institution’s Vice Chancellor by Professor Rungano Zvobgo before he capped 3 916 graduates.
The graduate were drawn from faculties namely Gary Magadzire School of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Simon Muzenda School of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Robert Mugabe School of Education, Julius Nyerere School of Social Sciences and Munhumutapa School of Commerce.
President Mnangagwa said under the Second Republic, institutions of higher learning should play a key role in national development.
“In the Second Republic institutions of higher learning must no longer merely take pride in student enrolment figures or the glamour of infrastructure.
The quality and impact of scholarship should be a source of answers to our national vision and aspirations,’’ he said.
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