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College authorities join hands with ZINASU
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
May 17, 2011

In a welcome development; authorities at Harare Polytechnic made a complete turnaround from their usual parochial attitude to disassociate with the Zimbabwe National Students Union and reiterated the nobleness of the Union's call for the re-introduction of the Loans and Grants scheme.

In a meeting held today 17 May 2011 from 1000hrs to 1400hrs at Harare Polytechnic between the ZINASU executive led by the President Obert Masaraure; the acting Principal of Harare Polytechnic Engineer T. Madondo and the Dean of Students reiterated that the scheme should be reintroduced so that higher education can became more accessible to all and that the quality of service should improve. "Actually with loans and grants our administrative burden would be reduced as students' welfare would be well covered. We really support your initiative to have it reintroduced" said the dean of students. ZINASU is set to address a General Meeting with students at the same Institution on Monday the 23rd of May as part of its Fresh Start Campaign launched last Friday in Masvingo. After the meeting with authorities the Leadership later met with the SRC members and discussed various issues and the students made it clear that they did not want to have politicians meddling in their affairs.

Government stopped the scheme in 2006 and introduced the cadetship scheme which the Union has equaled to slavery since it inhibits graduates the opportunity to seek new horizons of knowledge by bonding them to a government that is unable to create employment. The scheme also has negative effects on the welfare of students as they have to sustain themselves from their personal pockets. As a union we believe that higher education serves the nation and therefore it is the duty of the government to craft policies that enhances its growth and the loan and grant scheme is one such policy. It is common knowledge that world over Public Private sector partnerships are important for development.

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