adminSimbarashe Mudzivo Herald reporter
A total of 300 artisans graduated yesterday after completing various technical and vocational training courses at Msasa Industrial Training College.
They were presented with certificates after completing courses in automotive, mechanical, electrical engineering, construction, wood technology and computer studies.
A Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development official, Mrs Martha Muguti, said human resource training and development remained a top priority for the Government.
She said continued funding for training activities ensured that the country had adequate manpower for industry and commerce.
In pursuance of the government’s policy of indigenisation, empowerment, development and employment creation, she said, her ministry had launched the Graduate Entrepreneurial Employment Promotions Programme(GEEPP) to develop entrepreneurial skills and create employment among graduates.
The programme, she said, was taking place within training institutions in all the country’s provinces as well as MITC.
Mrs Muguti said public private partnerships had helped to ensure that the standard and quality of training in technical and vocational education was upheld. “I urge administrators of training institutions to take advantage of these synergies to improve and offer the best of the curricula for these synergies to flourish so that we ultimately produce fit-for-purpose graduates who should aim at setting up small businesses of their own and create employment for others,” she said.
She urged employers to continue sending their workers to acquire proper qualifications in various trades offered at the college.
“The industry should continue sending personnel to colleges for in-service training where a deeper understanding and scientific approach to skills is found,” she said.
MITC offers courses in automotive, mechanical, electrical engineering, construction and computer studies. Two students, Kudzai Barara and Petros Banda, walked away with cash prizes.
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