HIGHER Education Authority (HEA) says individuals who do not meet the minimum university entry requirements can acquire skills such as plumbing or bricklaying at TEVET institutions because it is a crime to enrol them. And HEA Director General Professor Kazhila Chinsembu has insisted that it can be better if private institutions did not offer STEM and medicine based courses. Speaking when he featured on ZNBC’s Sunday Interview, Prof Chinsembu said the obsession for degrees was creating an environment for evading minimum entry requirements. “We saw this, for example, during the recruitment of teachers and health workers, many graduates have degrees but they don’t have the 5 O levels. But the law is very clear that you must have the 5...