Shava tells universities: Produce patents and industries, not just graduates

 Zimbabwe’s universities and colleges should be judged by the patents they file, startups they launch and industries they create rather than the number of graduates they produce, Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Frederick Shava has said.

Addressing the Teachers Colleges Joint Translational Research Conference at Montclair Hotel in Nyanga on Wednesday, Shava challenged academics to move research beyond journals and laboratories and focus on solving real-world problems.

“The question is not what have we discovered, but what problems have we solved, what product have we created, and what communities have we transformed,” he said.

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