ZimEye.org
17 March 2011
Education, Art, Sport and Culture Minister David Coltart said the government is going to reintroduce night school learning throughout the country in order to assist children who dropped out of school in the past decade of economic decline adding that he had raised the funds to be paid to the teachers who shall do the work.
Thousands of school going people dropped out of school before the inception of the Government of National Unity (GNU) because of most parents’ failure to raise school fees school.
Some of the affected crossed the border for the Diaspora without completing their education.
“I have just finalised the funding deal with donors which will see teachers being paid for extra lessons countrywide. We have realised that it is essential to establish night schools so that people who dropped out of school can go back and at least get basic education that will enable them to fend for themselves,†Coltart said at an electricity commissioning programme at Westlea Primary School.
Coltart said the funding will also reduce the burden which parents were carrying of giving incentives to teachers.
As a result of the depressed economy teachers were demanding incentives from parents
The Incentives parents were paying were meant to improve teachers’ salaries.
This then resulted in an inequitable treatment of students from impoverished family backgrounds.