ZIMBABWE’s Training 5.0 philosophy is underneath assessment by the African Union (AU) as Harare prepares to host Africa Expertise Week 2026 from October 12 to 16 this yr.
AU Commissioner for Training, Science, Know-how and Innovation, Gaspard Banyankimbona, is within the capital Harare for the high-level talks.
Minister of Expertise Audit and Growth Jenfan Muswere obtained the commissioner this Tuesday for discussions on Zimbabwe’s expertise growth mannequin and its potential for continental adoption.
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Zimbabwe is pitching Training 5.0 as a game-changer that transforms universities and faculties into drivers of innovation, industrialisation and socio-economic transformation.
Muswere stated the AU mission would assess whether or not the philosophy may be replicated throughout Africa.
“Zimbabwe views Training 5.0 as central to human capital growth. We admire the AU Fee’s mission to judge its potential for continental adoption,” Muswere stated.
On the assembly, the minister reaffirmed Zimbabwe’s dedication to Pan-Africanism and continental integration, noting alignment between Imaginative and prescient 2030, the Nationwide Growth Technique, and the AU’s Agenda 2063. Each prioritise human capital as the muse for industrial competitiveness and inclusive progress.
Muswere described internet hosting Africa Expertise Week 2026 as each an honour and a Pan-African obligation.
The Expertise Audit and Growth ministry will function host ministry, coordinating authorities, non-public sector and communities by a whole-of-government strategy.
Cupboard has already accredited the internet hosting and arrange an Inter-Ministerial Organising Committee.
Muswere highlighted the ministry, created by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2023, as a daring institutional innovation tasked with auditing and forecasting nationwide expertise wants.
Its mandate contains sectoral expertise audits, labour market intelligence, coordinating coaching throughout sectors, and selling employer-led coaching and twin apprenticeships.
Zimbabwe supplied to share its skills-auditing frameworks and function a continental expertise intelligence hub. Muswere invited the AU Fee to mobilise companions, together with the Worldwide Labour Organisation (ILO), Worldwide Organisation for Migration (IOM) and World Financial institution to assist youth innovation, exhibitions and delegate participation.
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“Africa Expertise Week 2026 have to be a continental milestone for resilient, aggressive African industries,” Muswere stated, assuring the Commissioner of Zimbabwe’s readiness and political will to ship.
