Monthly Archives: September 2009

REPORT ON THE STAKEHOLDERS CONFERENCE: RAPID ASSESSMENT OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION Monday 14.09.09 at Prince Edward School The Stakeholders Conference on the Board’s Report on the Rapid Assessment of Primary and Secondary Education was well attended by Ministry officials, Board members and some partners, but unfortunately it clashed with the launch of the Education […]

15 September 2009 The Zimbabwe Telegraph By Gertrude Gumede ZIMBABWE – HARARE – Teachers will not get their October salaries if they continue with the strike, the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, David Coltart, won Tuesday. Coltart said the teachers would get this month’s salaries but risked being scratched from next month’s payroll […]

15 September 2009 The Herald Harare — Government in conjunction with Unicef and some international donors yesterday unveiled a US$70 million fund under the Educational Transition Fund to revitalise the Basic Education Assistance Module. The programme is meant to ensure access to quality education by all underprivileged schoolchildren. The funds will see school fees being […]

15 September 2009 AP HIGHFIELD, Zimbabwe — Stinking waste flows into the yard from the classroom toilets of B Block. Teachers hold lessons in the shade of trees outside: Much of the schoolroom furniture is piled into heaps of broken wood. Mutasa junior school was once the pride of this teeming impoverished township in western […]

The Zimbabwean 15 September 2009 The National Education Advisory Board, appointed in March this year, released its “Report on the Rapid Assessment of Primary and Secondary Education in Zimbabwe” yesterday at a Stakeholders Conference held at Prince Edward School, Harare. (Pictured: The Stakeholders in hall) The Assessment was funded by the European Commission, represented at […]

14 September 2009 Unicef.org UNICEF and its partners are launching a massive campaign in Zimbabwe to get textbooks into school classrooms. In one of the largest social initiatives of the past five years, the Educational Transition Fund announced today that it is spending $70 million on the initiative. Its goal is to ensure that all […]

14 September 2009 Zimonline HARARE – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday availed US$70 million to Zimbabwe’s under-funded education sector that is currently reeling under a two-week-old strike by teachers across the country. “The government of Zimbabwe, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the international donor community today unveiled a US$70 million partnership […]

14 September 2009 Radio VOP Harare, September 14, 2009 -Education, Sports and Culture David Coltart on Monday appealed to the government to allocate more resources to the education sector as the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) on Monday availed 70 US million dollars to Zimbabwe schools. Speaking at the launch of the Unicef’s 70 US […]

14 September 2009 VOA By Ish Mafundikwa The international donor community has unveiled a $70-million Educational Transition Fund aimed at improving the quality of education for the country’s children. Some of the money will also be used to pay school fees for orphans and other under privileged children. Zimbabwe used to enjoy the highest literacy […]

14 September 2009 Zimbabwe Telegraph ZIMBABWE – HARARE – The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) national executive will meet before the end of this week to discuss whether to call off the on-going teachers strike. The Zimta national executive will also debate the effect of the strike on pupils sitting for this year’s public examinations in […]