Lusaka, Zambia-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and former Zambian President Edgar Lungu's honorary PhDs, which they got from the University of Zambia, are now under scrutiny following the discredit by the Kingdom Home Office of some degrees offered by the same institution. Recently, the UK downgraded some University of Zambia graduates' degrees for the High Potential Individuals…
Lusaka-The United Kingdom Home Office is shunning University of Zambia graduates for the High Potential Individuals (HPI) visa due to the perceived inferiority of their degrees. The HPI visa is designed to attract “highly skilled graduates” from international universities outside of the UK to contribute to a range of sectors, such as science and technology. …
One year after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak launched the new High Potential Individual Visa in 2022, professors from universities in Europe and Africa call the route "unfair".
With approximately 1.2 million current job vacancies open, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), skills shortages are continuing to escalate, particularly in the care, science, engineering and hospitality sectors.