Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Jonathan Moyo said indicated that there is a disconnect between the new education curriculum which was implemented by his counterpart Lazarus Dokora, the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education and the STEM initiative. Moyo said that high school graduates under the new curriculum may be unable to proceed to tertiary institutions and may need to go back to school to do sciences and mathematics.
Addressing students at Midlands State University on the role of science, technology, engineering and mathematics Moyo said:
We have a very strong primary and secondary education system and, we have to applaud the responsible ministry for that. However, the new curriculum is new. What is going to happen is that since we are stematising our higher and tertiary education institutions, most of the high school pupils will not advance to universities or colleges. I do not know what will happen to them, but the moment they realise that their subjects are irrelevant, they will go back to school and do sciences and mathematics.
This was after the Minister had blamed high unemployment on irrelevant degrees saying
Now, most of these people who attained first degrees were in the fields of arts, commercials and social sciences. Most of these degrees are irrelevant in our society. That is why there is a very high unemployment rate.
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