The Chancellor of the Bindura University of Science
Education (BUSE) President Robert Mugabe has conferred degrees to 1 965
students who have graduated from the faculties of science education, science,
agriculture and environmental science, commerce, social sciences and
humanities.
It is the 16th graduation of BUSE since it attained
university status in 1996 as a university college of science education with 125
students.
BUSE is an offshoot of the Zimbabwe-Cuba Science Teacher
Training Programme which discontinued in Cuba following economic challenges
that were confronting the Caribbean nation.
The university has an enrollment of 6000 with 60 percent
doing science degrees in line with its mandate.
In his report at the graduation ceremony, BUSE Vice
Chancellor Professor Eddie Mwenje said this year’s ceremony has produced the
highest number of science teachers, 779 of them making the institution the
highest producer of science teachers in the country.
The university has made strides in research in the
production of drugs after it produced patents on snake bite antivenoms.
The institution has entered into partnership with a local
mobile phone provider for production of stoves and other gadgets at a Msasa
factory in line with the agenda on the transformation of higher and tertiary
education for industrialisation.
It is also at an advanced stage of assessing the possible
cure for Newcastle virus that is responsible for huge losses in the poultry
industry.
The development will be a major breakthrough for the
poultry industry.
The discovery may open up new avenues and greater
understanding on how to deal with other viruses that attack animals and humans.
Among those who attended the ceremony are Higher and
Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor
Jonathan Moyo, his deputy Dr Godfrey Gandahwa, the Minister of State for
Mashonaland Central Advocate Martin Dinha, Local Government, Public Works and
National Housing Minister Cde Saviour Kasukuwere, Zanu PF officials,
legislators from the province and parents of the graduands who joined to
celebrate the achievements of their children.
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