Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent
THE Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Polytechnic in Gwanda Town held an open and careers day on Friday as it seeks to increase enrolment. The college offers courses that include engineering, applied sciences, carpentry and joinery, brick and block laying as well as teacher education.

One of the challenges faced by the institution of higher learning is that most people prefer teacher training and very few people are taking up technical courses.

As a way of marketing the institution, a careers day showcasing what the polytechnic offers was held to help increase the number of students enrolling at the institution.

The event, which was attended by 41 high schools from across Matabeleland South Province, ran under the theme “Showcasing Curriculum Diversity”.

In marketing the courses, the polytechnic’s students exhibited products they made in their courses and explained their importance to school pupils.

JMN Polytechnic Dean of Technical Education, Caleb Ndlovu said they had in the past couple of years been conducting the event to attract more students to enroll with the polytechnic.

He said they had noted that there were some people in Matabeleland South or even in Gwanda where the college is located, who were ignorant of the institution’s existence hence the need to market it and its works.

“Today we’re showcasing what we’re offering as ‘Big Josh’ (a reference to the late Vice President, Joshua Nkomo in whose honour the college is named and who was nicknaned Big Josh) so that parents and students are enlightened about our polytechnic. We’re displaying students’ works and what we’re offering. We want to attract youths to enroll with us because we’re an institution that’s very relevant to industry hence they should utilise opportunities offered by the JMN Poly,” said Ndlovu.

“Since we started holding this event, we’ve recorded an improvement in enrolment because it’s been an eye opener to most people,” he added.

In his speech, the acting principal Patrick Senderayi said the polytechnic was in full force to support the success of the country’s economic blueprint, ZimAsset.

 

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