Universities are to communities in which they are located what tower lights represent in their designated areas. Tower lights are extensions of daylight to intensify symbiotic relations for mutual benefits between people and their institutions in social and economic development for a secure future. As pinnacles of higher education and technological innovations, universities play a cutting-edge role to catalyse communities around them for positive responses to challenges that often impede social, economic and political advancement in society.
When the institutions of higher learning, science and technology acquit themselves to the expectations of communities around them, they become relevant and indispensable in the evolution of people's lives. It is in that context that Zimbabweans across the nation ought to celebrate bold new initiatives by the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo to capacitate students in the university by teaching them, and untrained teachers, the beauty and utilitarian power of mathematics as a key to unlocking development through science and technology.This pen enters memory lane.
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