{"id":214182,"date":"2025-11-19T21:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:15:57","slug":"mozambique-university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-university-challenged-to-meet-real-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: University Challenged to Meet &#8216;Real Needs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Wednesday challenged Maputo&#8217;s Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), the oldest higher education institution in the country, &#8220;to meet the real needs of the country and of the world of work&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Speaking at a graduation ceremony, Chapo warned that &#8220;the time when a university diploma automatically guaranteed a job has come to its end&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Higher education, he said, should produce &#8220;creators of jobs&#8217; and not merely &#8220;candidates for employment&#8217;. This, he added, was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511190520.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Wednesday challenged Maputo&#8217;s Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), the oldest higher education institution in the country, &#8220;to meet the real needs of the country and of the world of work&#8217;. Speaking at a graduation ceremony, Chapo warned that &#8220;the time when a university diploma automatically guaranteed a job has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,10306,6508,4704,682,257,6884,254,5148],"class_list":["post-214182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenged","tag-meet","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-real","tag-south-africa-today","tag-university"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}