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| Delivering Education 5.0 |
The delivery of Education 5.0 focuses on responding to the simple but critical overarching question of: How Do We Become? The question speaks to how both the institutional
vision, as set in this strategic plan, can be achieved in pursuit of a significant contribution to the national vision 2030. Recognizing that universities are defined and separated by their capabilities to provide relevant solutions to industry, commerce and society through advancement of cutting edge tools, methods, technologies, approaches and innovations, the University of Zimbabwe anchors implementation of its strategy on a simple philosophy of ‘Kuziva neKugona’:
Kuziva/Ukwazi: Refers to our deep Understanding and Consciousness about what defines us: our problems, our circumstances, our heritage and our opportunities. It is therefore beyond mere access to information and knowledge. Under this strategy we seek to understand:
i What our people (i.e. industry, commerce & society) want
- What we want happen (i.e. what we want to cause)
iii The architecture of university education necessary to deliver our people from poverty and take them to the next level of socio-economic development consistent with our national vision.
Kugona/Ukwenelisa: Refers to our being sufficiently Strategic and Competent to achieve the vision. The University of Zimbabwe has sufficient depth and breadth of skills and competences through its various faculties and departments to support the vision. However, successful implementation of the strategy will be moored on how the University is able to:
❖ organize and deploy its brain power;
❖ sufficiently and effectively draw on our heritage in our research and innovation processes for national development and academic foot-print;
❖ internationalize its brand;
❖ convert the needs of people into opportunities for advancement of knowledge, skills and technologies towards industrialization.
Implied strongly in Kugona is Action or Kuita. Kuita/Ukwenza refers to going beyond the theory and the talking, to delivering the actions necessary to achieve the vision (the implementation). The university should be at the centre of the action, innovatively putting research into use to generate goods and services and crafting practical industrial, business and societal solutions.
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The University of Zimbabwe Strategic Plan 2019-2025 sets out to guide the University community and partners on a transformative pathway to the delivery of goods and services towards industrialization and modernization of Zimbabwe. The Strategic Plan is underpinned by the philosophy of Kuziva/Ukwazi (deep understanding and consciousness) neKugona/lokwenelisa (being strategic and competent in execution), which will propel the University to a global level of recognition as a centre for research, innovation and higher education training, delivering relevant, cost-effective and timeous solutions to industry, commerce and society: to deliver the Zimbabwean populace from poverty. Through KuzivaneKugona, the Strategic Plan speaks to our stakeholders by opening 'avenues' for conducting cutting- edge research, driven by a clear understanding of the needs, wants and circumstances of our people, knowing what we want to cause (e.g. new generation of companies and industries), and most importantly, how we can organize our brain power to come up with innovative models, methodologies, tools, strategies and policies that trigger technological advancement for modernisation of the Zimbabwean economy.
