What is Unnect Pathfinder? A guide for students

Unnect Pathfinder, also known as Zim Student Pathfinder, is a website that matches a Zimbabwean student's O-Level and A-Level results to the universities, colleges, vocational programmes and scholarships they can apply to. It also shows what is still missing, so a student knows what to work on, not just where the door is closed.

It is made by Unnect Holdings, a company in Harare that builds data, artificial intelligence and operational software. Pathfinder is the product Unnect built for students and schools. You can read more about the company on the Unnect Holdings home page.

How results go in

Typing grades one by one is slow, so Pathfinder offers three ways to add them:

• type the grades subject by subject;
• speak them aloud;
• upload a photo of the results slip.

Once the results are in, Pathfinder checks them against the entry rules each institution publishes and shows the programmes a student qualifies for, the ones they are close to, and what is missing for the rest.

Built for students without a phone

Not every learner has a phone or internet access of their own. Pathfinder includes a school-based route for exactly that case. Teachers can submit results for learners, so a student does not have to own a device to be matched to opportunities.

Who it is for

Pathfinder is for students at school who want to know what their results qualify for, for students already at university who want work and a stronger CV, and for the parents and teachers who help them decide. A teacher can use the school route to submit results for a class, and a parent can sit with a student and see the same list of options.

What a match means

A match is a comparison of your results with an institution's published entry rules. It tells you whether you meet those rules today, how close you are if you do not, and which requirement is missing. The decision to admit a student always belongs to the institution, so use Pathfinder to plan and to ask better questions, then confirm with the institution before you apply.

What it offers university students

Students already at university get a different set of tools:

• a job and internship board;
• a CV review that scores each section and lists what is missing;
• tailored CVs, cover letters and application emails drafted from the student's own CV;
• ratings of employers by students.

What it offers everyone

• an AI study tutor with a free daily allowance;
• scholarship search and an application assistant;
• ratings of schools by their own students;
• a community feed.

A rule we keep to

Entry rules come from what each institution publishes. Where an institution publishes none, Pathfinder says so instead of guessing. That is deliberate. A confident wrong answer about whether you qualify can cost a student a year, and an honest "not published yet" costs nothing.

Try it

You can see what your own results qualify for on the Unnect Pathfinder website, without making an account. If you are a school or an organisation and want to work with us, get in touch. Unnect Holdings is at 163 Union Avenue, Harare, and you can write to [e-mail].

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This article first appeared on Unnect Holdings. Unnect Pathfinder is a product of Unnect Holdings.