RCU to host Vice Chancellor’s Golf Tournament

24 Sep, 2017 - 00:09 0 Views

The Sunday Mail

Stephene Chikozho
The Reformed Church University (RCU), which is in the final stages of the construction of the $2 million phase one project of its main campus in Masvingo, is set to host a Vice Chancellor’s Golf Tournament at the ZRP Golf Club in Harare on September 29.

The university, whose main campus is taking shape with the near completion of teaching and learning facilities as well as the administration building, is convening the golf tournament in order to mobilise financial resources and special needs equipment for the RCU’s Disability Resource Centre, a facility which is located at the new university main campus.

In line with the university’s niche of inclusive education, the Disability Resource Centre shall have state-of-the-art equipment to enable students with and without disabilities to have access to learning and communication facilities.  As a result, all university students can learn effectively in an inclusive environment.

Commenting on the forthcoming golf tournament, RCU Vice Chancellor Professor Wiseman Magwa said the mandate of the RCU is to offer degree programmes to people living with and without disabilities in an inclusive environment.

He added: “The university’s niche is inclusive education, theology and community service. It is hoped that the RCU shall act as a national hub, national referral centre or regional centre of specialisation in inclusive and theology.’’

Prof Magwa further explained that: “The golf tournament, which is being held in support of the  Disability Resource Centre, is special in that it is coinciding with the current drive of the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, of transforming Zimbabwean universities’ institutional structures and culture in order to effectively drive industrialisation and modernisation of the nation’s economy through research, innovations and business enterprise development.”

The Vice Chancellor reaffirmed that the RCU had embraced this call, and Information Communication and Technology (ICT) driven pedagogy had been at the heart of the university curriculum. “In 2016, the university keenly embraced the policy thrust on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education.

Focusing on STEM helped the university produce useful research throughout, and encouraged more learners with and without disabilities to acquire relevant skills that made them competitive on the job market as well as being job creators in their own right.” Prof Magwa noted.

In strategic terms, the university, which is in the process of transforming from the establishment to the growth mode, shall address academic growth through increased enrolment as well as reinforcing STEM in the university curriculum in order to effectively drive industrialisation and modernisation of the nation’s economy through research, innovations and business enterprise development.

 Stephene Chikozho is the Director, Business Development, Information & Public Relations

 

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