Occasional Paper on development policies for Higher Education in Zimbabwe in the 1980's.We are honoured and pleased to have an insightful interview with Dr Dzingai B Mutumbuka, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Higher Education, as the second paper in this series. This paper provides a comprehensive response to recently published World Bank recommendations for the region’s education sector. This occasional paper represents the full text of an interview which Cde Mutumbuka granted in late 1987; portions of the interview have been reprinted in the first issue of the Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research (Vol I, no 1, March 1989).Production and distribution of the Occasional Papers series is made possible by generous grants from the Swedish Internatio...