Higher and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira has challenged educationists to embrace the Education 5.0 model aimed at producing students who are innovative to transform the economy towards the achievement of Agenda 2030.<\/p>\n
Traditionally, Zimbabwe\u2019s education system had three missions of teaching, research and community outreach.<\/p>\n
The purpose of its design focused on producing a worker and not an industrialist.<\/p>\n
The new model embraces innovation and industrialisation, which could enable education institutions in the country to produce students who can create jobs for themselves as well as for others.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have now conceptualised a new augmented model that allows us to move from the idea-to-product by adding innovation and industrialisation to the traditional tripartite mission of teaching, research and community outreach,\u201d Murwira said at a Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) annual conference in Harare yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we have found out is that no matter how much we are able to calculate the most complicated equation, as long as we are in a wrong design (Education 3.0), we will and cannot industrialise and modernise,\u201d Murwira said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when we calculate within the right framework (Education 5.0), industrialisation will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Primary and Secondary Education minister Paul Mavima said Education 5.0 was the key to transforming Zimbabwe\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur teachers are the fundamental factors to ensure the human capital that is needed to take us towards the Agenda 2030. We must act fast. (Much) of our problem is productivity-centred,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want innovations. We want people who can come up with businesses to help solve these problems. Teachers are critical. Our teachers need to be capacitated.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said his ministry was in solidarity with the teachers in their endeavour to negotiate for better salaries from their employer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should motivate and also bring confidence in them to help us achieve Agenda 2030. We are advancing together with them to the Public Service Commission to improve their standard of living,\u201d Mavima said.<\/p>\n
In an interview on the sidelines of the conference, Zimta chief executive Sifiso Ndlovu said the annual indaba was meant to discuss issues affecting teachers that are acting as barriers to the transformation of the economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are discussing if the teachers\u2019 condition in the classroom is favourable? The size of the classroom and the teacher-students ratio. These are issues which we will take to government to say let us address,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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