DR WILLIAM MAVENGERE is a lecture of Bachelor of Technology honours in Biotechnology (Courses taught: Technical Communication Skills, Bioprocess Engineering, Enzymology and Immunology). He is a Member of the HIT Journal of Biotechnology Editorial board.

A few days ago Dr. William Mavengere read an article in a local newspaper with the title “Students blame education system for Joblessness”. As a worker in the local education system these sentiments hit me hard. Our beloved graduates believe that we failed them. That academic community must have taken these sentiments to heart because the very next day a rebuttal appeared in the same newspaper with the title “ Zimbabwe unemployment, education system, not directly linked”. There must be a relationship between the two otherwise everyone on the “Education is pointlessness” bandwagon would be right. Dr Mavengere teaches biotechnology at the Harare Institute of Technology here in Zimbabwe. Biotechnology involves deriving economic benefit from living systems or their natural products. Antibiotics, vaccines, biofuels, biofertilizers and fermented foods are all examples of biotechnology products. Now one can work as a biotechnologist if they were trained as a biotechnologist. Unfortunately, one can also be trained as a biotechnologist but not find work as a biotechnologist. He talks about, “Transcend the fear of Failure”, that’s his talk topic.
Harare Institute of Technology University Senior Lecturer.
Honours dissertation was on identifying a plant natural product that inhibits Glutathione transferase (an enzyme that makes some cancers resistant to chemotherapy), May 2020 - PRESENT, ZIMBABWE, Lecturer, Bachelor of Technology honours in Biotechnology (Courses taught: Technical Communication Skills, Bioprocess Engineering, Enzymology and Immunology), Member of the HIT Journal of Biotechnology Editorial board Midlands State University / Lecturer. 2019 - 2020, ZIMBABWE, Lecturer, Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (Course taught: Biochemistry) Stellenbosch University / Postdoctoral Fellow This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]

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