Ministry of Primary
and Secondary Education
ZIMBABWE
This program is designed to give an overview of career options and insights to careers that are relevant to the Zimbabwean economic problems and providing economic solutions. The program will give students the much needed practical element, making them ready to adapt the working environment after leaving school. The program is divided into four parts. The first two parts empowers students with knowledge and expertise to our local environment Zimbabwe, identifying areas of need in terms of manpower and then relate to the educational needs that are relevant to our economic growth. The third and fourth parts specialize in bringing out solutions that are homegrown building solutions based on local opportunities, culture and values.
The program aims to identify students’ skills and expertise and interconnect them to the appropriate sectors of the economy in order to equip them at an early age. The new approach must be able to produce professionals and skilled manpower at O level meaning to say out of the one hundred and twenty O level leavers, we must have one hundred and twenty pre professionals and skilled manpower to fit in to different disciplines as the economy will be demanding.
Students from different provinces will get a hands-on understanding of career opportunities within their local regions. This program will equip students with the much needed knowledge to the problems that affect their local community and the understanding of local solutions that are needed, which are the home grown solutions.
This part will focus on forecasting specialized labor demands. The world is moving from the traditional fuel powered cars to electrical cars. Zimbabwe produces lithium which used to manufacture electrical car batteries abroad. Therefore, Zimbabwe will need knowledge and expertise to enable local manufacturing of car batteries in order to avoid exporting raw lithium.
This part aims to develop an approach that creates our own solution to our local problems Academic tours will give students a hands-on understanding to the problems facing the nation, and the available solutions. This exercise examines the extent of effectiveness and efficiency of the solutions on the ground.
Professionals do not qualify overnight, there is a chain of events that they go through. This involves acquiring knowledge, skills and research to become effective professionals. This program reveals the buildup of a qualified professional showing step by step the researches, trainings, tours and workshops that they went through building their qualifications to become a professional. This will show that they did not just qualify by chance but have a traceable history.
We run employee development initiatives and in-house trainings to address skills gap which is often referred as the disparity between the skills an employer expects thier employees to have and the actual skills employees possess. This mismatch makes it challenging for employers to fill open positions.