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NewsDay
March 29, 2018
Midlands State University (MSU) has won an enterprise innovation award after beating other local tertiary institutions at the 2018 business leadership and enterprise ... “The system has eased the way of doing business with the university as prospective students are able to apply and register online.
Chronicle
March 29, 2018
Nust has one utility model while the University of Zimbabwe has three patents and Bindura University has one patent. “This is how our universities are using the ARIPO system to protect their research and innovation results. We believe that Zimbabwean universities and research institutions can do betterÃâà...
Technology Zimbabwe
March 28, 2018
This is a cause for concern to a country that has recently launched The ICT Innovation Drive. While Zimbabwe is known for its high literacy rates these figures provide a worrying contrast because computer literacy is needful if innovation is to be realized in the wider economy.
NewsDay
March 28, 2018
ZIMBABWE College of Music (ZMC) executive director, Rachel Jera-Chigwanda has urged musicians to enrol for various music education programmes offered by the institution, which ... Chigwanda told NewsDay Life & Style recently that they are committed to uplifting talent in line with the college's vision.
Niagara Frontier Publications
March 28, 2018
The program, which calls on faculty from both universities to provide University of Zimbabwe scholars with mentored training in HIV research, will expand to include cancer- and ... D., director of the School of Pharmacy in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe, will also participate.
Voice of America
March 27, 2018
At his first press conference this week since being ousted last November, Zimbabwe's former president, Robert Mugabe, spent most of his time ... But analyst Alexander Rusero of Harare Polytechnic College School of Journalism has this advice for President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, who isÃâà...
NewsDay
March 27, 2018
If universities must not concern themselves with creating employable graduates, does it mean university education must never tackle practical economic issues like employment? University education has a critical role to play in practical economics but through polytechnic colleges not universities.
The New Yorker
March 20, 2018
I spoke with Professor Mickias Musiyiwa, of the University of Zimbabwe, who told me that chimurenga music continues to be “one platform that Zimbabweans always resort to whenever they want to express their grievances against their leaders and against Western imperialism.” The word comes from theÃâà...
africanews
March 5, 2018
University of Zimbabwe sent its vice chancellor on indefinite leave over the allegations. Nyagura was arrested in mid-February by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), which is investigating. whether a PhD was wrongly awarded to the former first lady in 2014. The university council took theÃâà...
NewsDay
March 3, 2018
Remember Amon Murwira at Higher Education is struggling with how to deal with his former boss, Levi Nyagura at the University of Zimbabwe. Paul Mavima at Primary and Secondary Education still thinks he is Lazarus Dokora's deputy. The mess around the Ordinary Level English Paper 2 should haveÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 3, 2018
"Gracelands" was the name Zimbabweans gave to the land that Zimbabwe's former first lady, Grace Mugabe, claimed and cleared. ... On Monday, 5 March, Levi Nyagura, vice chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe is expected in court to answer allegations of awarding a PhD degree to the former first ladyÃâà...
Times Higher Education (THE)
February 20, 2018
Authorities in Zimbabwe have arrested Levi Nyagura, the vice-chancellor of the university that awarded Grace Mugabe a PhD just two months after she enrolled on the programme. The Anti-Corruption Commission began investigating the circumstances surrounding the University of Zimbabwe's award ofÃâà...
Inside Higher Ed
February 19, 2018
Zimbabwe's anticorruption agency has arrested Levi Nyagura, vice chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe, the BBC reported. Many have blamed Nyagura for the 2014 awarding of a Ph.D. to Grace Mugabe, wife of the country's then president. Academics and others have said that the doctorate cannot beÃâà...
Eyewitness News
February 7, 2018
The former first lady's thesis on orphanages has been subject to intense scrutiny since it was posted on the university's website last month, with critics saying it falls far short of the normal standard required for a doctorate. University of Zimbabwe vice-chancellor Levi Nyagura says Mugabe's thesis has beenÃâà...
The Times
December 31, 1999
Robert Mugabe says his wife Grace has cried every day since he was forced from power because their enemies are seeking to strip her of the PhD that she was awarded by the University of Zimbabwe. He voiced his complaint to Moussa Faki Mahamat, the African Union commission chairman, when heÃâà...
The Herald
December 31, 1999
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Council has reportedly suspended Vice Chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura on allegations of abuse of office after he allegedly unprocedurally awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree to former First Lady Grace Mugabe. Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Pedzisai Mashiri hasÃâà...
The Tand D.com
December 31, 1999
Dr. Munashe Furusa, vice chancellor of Africa University in Zimbabwe, speaks to Claflin University faculty and students about the institutions' new partnership. JOHN MACK ... Claflin University is joining forces with Africa University in Zimbabwe in a move designed to benefit students from both institutions.
News24
December 31, 1999
Harare - The University of Zimbabwe has sent its vice chancellor on indefinite forced leave after he was arrested on charges of abuse of office over Grace Mugabe's PhD. The university council took the decision to suspend Levi Nyagura after several hours of "very heated debate" said the state-controlledÃâà...
Independent Online
December 31, 1999
Bulawayo - Zimbabwean students at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Bulawayo, staged a demonstration on Monday, demanding an end to the lecturers' strike. NUST lecturers have been on strike for almost four weeks as a show of defiance against what they call theÃâà...
