{"id":94290,"date":"2025-11-20T20:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:01:40","slug":"university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs","title":{"rendered":"University Challenged to Meet \u201cReal Needs\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Wednesday challenged Maputo\u2019s Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), the oldest higher education institution in the country, \u201cto meet the real needs of the country and of the world of work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a graduation ceremony, Chapo warned that \u201cthe time when a university diploma automatically guaranteed a job has come to its end\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Higher education, he said, should produce \u201ccreators of jobs\u201d and not merely \u201ccandidates for employment\u201d. This, he added, was one of the great strategic challenges for the future of the university and for the construction of the country\u2019s economic independence.<\/p>\n<p>Chapo noted that this was the first graduation ceremony since he became President. He promised that his term of office will be marked by a commitment \u201cto establish the foundations for our economic independence, through the structural transformation of our economy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He evoked the historic legacy of the UEM, which he described as \u201can instrument of national emancipation, a factory of cadres, and a nursery of critical thought\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was in the UEM, he recalled, that \u201cthe first cadres were trained who built the Mozambican state\u201d, and where much of the country\u2019s modern national awareness was shaped.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the UEM \u201cis being reborn with new strength\u201d. It was not just a teaching university but was becoming a research university \u201ccommitted to science, innovation and social transformation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chapo noted that, so far this year, 1,789 cadres have graduated from the UEM, 56 per cent of them women.<\/p>\n<p>He told the new graduates \u201cyour diploma is not the end of a journey, but the start of a new responsibility\u201d. Chapo urged the graduates \u201cto serve Mozambique with competence, responsibility, honesty, integrity, ethics and patriotism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Mozambique<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Wednesday challenged Maputo\u2019s Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), the oldest higher education institution in the country, \u201cto meet the real needs of the country and of the world of work\u201d. Speaking at a graduation ceremony, Chapo warned that \u201cthe time when a university diploma automatically guaranteed a job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":94289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-94290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>University Challenged to Meet \u201cReal Needs\u201d - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Wednesday challenged Maputo\u2019s Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), the oldest higher ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"University Challenged to Meet \u201cReal Needs\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Wednesday challenged Maputo\u2019s Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), the oldest higher ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-20T20:11:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-20T21:01:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2025\/11\/sm_1763659624.576908.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"766\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"University Challenged to Meet \u201cReal Needs\u201d\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-20T20:11:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-20T21:01:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs\"},\"wordCount\":300,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2025\/11\/sm_1763659624.576908.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs\",\"name\":\"University Challenged to Meet \u201cReal Needs\u201d - 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