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Vitalis Kavele Herald Reporter
A TOTAL of 663 students from the Women’s University in Africa were last Friday conferred with degrees from four different faculties at the university.Speaking at the graduation ceremony WUA Vice-Chancellor Professor Hope Sadza appealed to the Government and the private sector to support the university to enable the institution achieve its mandate of addressing gender disparity and fostering equity in university education.
“WUA is a private university relying mainly on student tuition fees and charges. The money collected from students is not enough for both operational and capital expenditure,” she said.
“We urge the Government and the private sector to assist us with financial resources to sustain our operations.”
Prof Sadza said the number of women graduating from the university had increased significantly since 2005 when the institution started.
“The number of students graduating today is the largest number we have had in one single ceremony and it is encouraging to note that our numbers are growing each year. The figure brings the total number of graduands, since our first graduation in 2005 to 3099, approximately 75 percent of whom are women,” she said.
Zimbabwe’s first black female commercial pilot and Air Zimbabwe director flight operations Captain Emilia Fungayi Njovani was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree in Women and Gender Development in recognition of her inspiration to the Zimbabwean girl child.
The university, Prof Sadza said, had made great strides in the construction of its main campus in Marondera as well as the purchase of Marondera Hotel as part of its 2012- 2015 strategic plan.
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