CHOMA
Friday: October, 2023
The Minister of Technology and Science Mr. Felix Mutati said Saint Mawaggali Trades Training Institute has proved its quality training requisites evidently demonstrated by student – pedagogy hands on outputs activities qualifying it to a center of excellence among many requisite factors.
The Minister said this in Choma when he was commissioning St. Mawaggali Trades Training Institute to a center of excellence. Mr. Mutati commended the college management, TEVETA, and other team players who conducted assessment on the required protocols that have qualified the Trades Institute to the status of a Center of Excellence.
The Minister said the launched center of excellence is not a destination but a continuous course of training life process.
He urged the students to stand firm and carry a practical output student’s excellence stature in various entrepreneurial activities in society.
The Minister also urged the college management to leverage on a continous checklist performance assessment on the outlined protocols in order to sustain its upgraded status.
The Minister, added that said if the Center of Excellence status is sustained for three (3) consecutive years it will attract a motivational extra monetary reward”.
He observed that the college can uphold and maintain the newly assumed status by commercializing its automated machinery for income generation and also use it as a yardstick measure on student’s skills and entrepreneurial acquisition activities.
He also encouraged the college management to explore Constituency Development Fund (CDF) opportunities and commercially engage respective constituencies to provide earth moving equipment repairs hence initiating a start point to introduce heavy duty engineering training programme.
The Minister applauded the St. Mawaggali and Kasiya College Catholic partnership under the auspices of the Archbishop of Monze diocese for playing a critical role to help mould, correct, and uplift the student’s attitudes anchored on hope, discipline, and hardwork.
Presenting his remarks Technology and Science Permanent Secretary Dr. Brilliant Habeenzu said in view of the 8th National Development Plan policy document enshrined with enabler economic development and job creation pillar of key drivers that includes skills, technology, water, energy, infrastructure, transport and logistics demand for a quest to interrogate how skills and technology can be leveraged on to improve all economic sectors.
He said the recent presented 2024 budget will help to enhance skills training. He urged St. Mawaggali to consistently maintain the status quo and cautiously through hardwork effectively deliver skills training to the people of Zambia.
Dr. Habeenzu also encouraged the management to explore agriculture mechanization in line with the local economic activities. He expected a well managed center ongoing foward.
And St. Mawaggali Trades Trades Centre of excellence Principal Thom Chewe Kampamba said the community celebrates with excitement the achieved strides that are as a result of combined efforts.
Mr. Kampamba said the government’s support with state of the art training equipment is what has made the college a center of excellence but also a point to devise entrepreneurial activities.
And Technical Education Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Authority (TEVETA) Board Chairperson Ngoza Chibesakunda Nkwabilo said the accomplishments of St. Mawaggali as a Center of Excellence aqauints the collective commitment and dedication to the improvement of TEVET towards the employability, productivity, and job creation.
