𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐘𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝟔𝟎 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐃 𝐉𝐔𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐏𝐔𝐓𝐒

Speaking at the Diamond Jubilee celebratory event, today, Technology and Science Minister Felix Mutati say established and bred in the then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, the Evelyn Hone college has over the years demonstrated competent skills training capacity – outputs of many students who largely have contributed to the fortunes of the country anchored on wisdom and knowledge with a commencement initial enrollment of only 100 to a current growth of 8,000 students.

Mr Mutati said the college has produced many intellectuals among them medical doctors.

He was grateful with displayed innovations by the college students among them CDF tracking application system, agriculture advanced mechanisms and marketing application system, enhanced brewing fermentation application, artificial data intelligence cardiac detector, and the aesthetic design and fine arts solid innovative outputs.

Minister Mutati described the 60 year achievement as a cornerstone to continue and progress the college so as to raise its capacity to deliver quality education, innovation, and technology.

He commended the college for its strategic roadmap also focussed on collaborative ties at not only local but eqaully international front in order to cross pollinate ideas and deliver effective training deliverables to the nation.

At a robust backdrop of the college strategic plan Minister urged the college management to reconstitute and elevate the Evelyn Hone college to a university college through stakeholder – consultations and the at ministry’s input and guidance to review the TEVET act.

Mr Mutati said government will continue to support the college. He urged the management to increase enrollment beyond 8,000 hence the need to tap into and embrace e – learning extension to the far flung regions of Zambia in order to absorb and deliver training to more students.

Minister, however, urged the the college to interrogate conceptual ideals, away from the restrictive budget, hence embrace “outside the box” implementation plan so as to continue construction programmes towards completion of pending college infrastructure that can be affected through public private partnership.

He commended students for their exhibited skillful and innovative solutions that must be upheld for fortunes of a better Zambia.

And speaking at the event Technology and Science Permanent Secretary Dr Brilliant Habeenzu said the commemoration calls for national jubilation in view of the long existing college and its immense contribution to the provision of advancement training programmes enhancing on job creation, skills development, entrepreneurship for the people of Zambia.

PS Habeenzu said the ministry attaches great importance to the development of skills and education sector hence alive to the fact that quality training remain indispensable to national development.

Dr Habeenzu believed education in every sense is one of the fundamental factors of development and it arises people’s productivity, creativity, and promotes entrepreneurship and technological advancements.

He explained that education plays a critical role in securing economic and social progress and improved income distribution amongst the citizens. Dr Habeenzu noted that government believes education is an essential tool that provides knowledge for sustainable development as it paves way for skills, attitudes, necessary values to shape a better future for all.