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MUTARE Polytechnic is forging ahead with a clear vision of the training of STEM-compliant, knowledgeable, well-skilled innovative, dedicated and patriotic artisans who in turn will produce technological and engineering solutions to the community and societal challenges.
This is concretised through a Technical Vocational Education Training system (TVET) curriculum that is fully Stem-itised to enhance modern technological competences grounded into unhu/ubuntu.
It was designed to produce cutting-edge artisans, technicians and technologists for the industrialisation and modernisation of Zimbabwe fashioned by the overall Zim-Asset agenda and the Sadc Protocol as well as the AU’s Agenda 2063.
With this aim in mind, all current students are engaged in projects that expose them to real-life experiences in communities through the establishment of business incubators.
By the end of the training, these students would be self-sufficient, having their own start-up capital to start their own business.
Passing through STEM-itised curricular has empowered them to be job creators and not job seekers.
To support the STEM initiative, the students are engaged in practicals such as the moulding of car canopies with plans to go commercial at an advanced stage, more practicals are also done in construction works and furniture works under the watchful eye n of college lecturers.
