776 teachers graduate at Seke Teacher’s College

Rejoice Makoni Herald Correspondent

A TOTAL of 776 teachers graduated yesterday with Diplomas in Education at Seke Teacher’s College with calls to embrace the heritage based Education 5.0 model in order to ensure students are capable of resolving local challenges.

Among the 776 graduates, 723 were female while 53 were male.

The theme for this year’s graduation was, “Ideation, Innovation and Industrialisation in Teacher Education.”

In a speech read on his behalf by Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation Science and Technology Professor Norman Rudhumbu, the Minister, Professor Amon Murwira, said developing Zimbabwe was the business of every citizen.

“Zimbabwe is our heritage hence we have the heritage based education 5.0 model. Development our country is our sole responsibility as citizens,” he said.

“We are industrialising and mordenising our country through education 5.0. The onus is upon us as Zimbabweans to transform our country. Through heritage based education we are equipping our students with skills and knowledge that will make them self-reliant, a departure from the previous education 3.0 model which we inherited from our colonisers. Our education is for empowerment. Education 5.0 produces graduates who innovate and industrialise using natural resources.’’

Student Representative Council president Admire Tsangadzaume said this year’s theme resonates with the Heritage-based Education 5.0 thrust. “Institutions of higher learning are supposed to be innovative and come up with new ideas that will provide solutions to the community and steer the nation forward to attain an upper middle income economy by 2023,” he said.

“I challenge my colleagues as we go out in the field to implement the skills we obtained during our training to contribute meaningfully for the development of our country especially the education sector.”

The basis of heritage-based solutions is in the education 5.0 design which is a five-mission model of innovation and industrialisation established to move teaching towards a research and community service economy.