HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira has said educational qualifications offered by institutions of higher learning that do not offer practical solutions to the development of the country’s economy will, in the long run, be phased out.

Speaking on Monday at the official launch of a four-day workshop on the framework to standardise the qualifications being held at the Midlands State University, Murwira said the country could no longer afford to have programmes with fancy names that do not produce results.

He said his ministry was serious in developing standardised qualifications through the establishment of minimum bodies of knowledge and skills.

“All degrees must have clear bodies of knowledge and outcome,” Murwira said.

“Those without outcome will extinct themselves. We are so serious on the minimum bodies of knowledge and skill. That is why we instituted statutory instruments 132, 133 and 137 of 2018. If some do not comply, for sure, some certificates, degrees and diplomas shall phase themselves out.”

Murwira said government was moving towards crafting an education system that balances skills and knowledge.Newsday