Monthly Archives: May 2010
No Decision by Zimbabwe Cabinet on Controversial North Korean Soccer Team Visit
VOA By Gibbs Dube 11 May 2010 Education, Culture and Sport Minister David Coltart said the Cabinet did not take up the issue on Tuesday but said North Korean authorities are likely to respond this week to the invitation from the Zimbabwe World Cup Committee. Confounding expectations, the Zimbabwean Cabinet took no decision at its […]
Zimbabwe Court Acquits Mugabe Opponent of Terrorism Charges
New York Times By Celia W. Dugger 11 May 2010 JOHANNESBURG — A High Court judge in Zimbabwe on Monday acquitted Roy Bennett — a leader of the party that has long opposed President Robert Mugabe but now governs the country with him — on charges of plotting to violently overthrow Mr. Mugabe, 86, who […]
Govt to assist students pay exam fees
Www.zicora.com Zimbabwe Community Radio Posted By Own Staff Tuesday 11 May 2010 THE Ministry of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture is working on a programme to assist children who are not able to pay their examination fees for Ordinary and Advanced level, a Cabinet Minister has revealed. Minister David Coltart said his ministry was working on […]
Coltart to introduce civic education
ZimEye.org By Gerald Chateta May 10, 2010 Harare – Education Sports and Culture Minister, David Coltart said he was in a process of introducing civic education in the country’s education curricular which would see children being taught to respect tolerance and human and property rights. The idea comes after the country had witnessed a decade […]
Row over textbook tender
Sunday News By Nobuhle Nyoni 9th May 2010 A ROW is looming pitting printing houses and the United Nations Children’s Educational Fund (UNICEF) over a textbook tender that they claim was “mysteriously†awarded to Longman Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Printing House and College Press Publishers argue the awarding of the tender was unfair. The tender flighted under […]
Curriculum lagging behind global trends
The Standard By Vusumuzi Sifile 9 May 2010 ZIMBABWE’S schools are using a curriculum that was last reviewed in the 1980s, a development that has contributed to the perennial “free fall†in education standards and put the country out of sync with fast-changing education trends globally. Government, which is battling to bring normality to an […]
Parents Must Pay for Kids’ Education
The Herald Editorial 6 May 2010 Harare — Zimbabwe’s  State schools cannot cope without fees and levies; parents need to realise that there is no “free education” and the better the school the more it is going to need in the way of parents’ money and support to maintain and raise standards. The urban-rural divide […]
Zimbabwe’s Education And Health Systems Still In Crisis
Radio VOP 6 May 2010 Harare, – Zimbabwe’s Education and Health Ministers said the two sectors were still in a shocking condition due to lack of political will among the warring political parties in the country. During a presentation on the social services sector; infrastructure resuscitation and rehabilitation of education and health services in the […]
Speech by Senator David Coltart given to Konrad Adenhauer Foundation conference on “The first anniversary of Zimbabwe’s Inclusive Governmentâ€
Speech by Senator David Coltart regarding Education: Problems, Progress, Setbacks and the Way Ahead Harare 5 May 2010 I am grateful to the Konrad Adenhauer Foundation for organising this conference. I will be speaking this afternoon regarding the Education sector and will be analysing the problems I have faced, progress made, the setbacks, and then […]
Schools Bar Pupils Over Fees
The Herald 5 May 2010 Harare — Schools in Harare opened for the second term yesterday with scores of students at Government institutions being turned away for failing to pay tuition fees and levies. The financial burden on parents appears to have taken its toll as large numbers of schoolchildren did not attend classes. The […]