Author Archives: David Coltart
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-15
Great u tube on Ngoni Makusha – Zimbabwe's star athlete http://t.co/7pROtkwl # Met William Hague and Prince Andrew last night at Lancaster House reception and discussed need for UK to assist Zim's GPA, flawed as it is # Attending #Apple summit for education in London – fascinating educational apps – some schools have a iPad […]
Dreadlocked child thrown out of school
NewsDay 12 January 2012 A Bulawayo man yesterday filed a High Court application seeking an order barring Masiyephambili Junior School from stopping his dreadlocked son from attending Grade 0 classes. Khumbulani Dube who is representing his four-year -old son, Mbalenhle Dube, filed an urgent chamber application yesterday afternoon after the headmaster of the school denied […]
Coltart tells the world’s most feared UK Boss to “assist Zimbabwe’s governmentâ€
11 January 2012 Zimbabwe’s minister of Education and Sport, David Coltart has asked Britain’s most feared foreign policy guru to assist the Zimbabwe government despite the current problems it is facing. The UK’s foreign secretary William Hague is Britain’s most feared government official who Robert Mugabe recently expressed personal concerns of following the UK’s recent […]
How is Zimbabwe improving its national education system and what are the results?
Speech given at the Education World Forum, London By David Coltart 11 January 2012Â Introduction Zimbabwe was recognised in the past as having arguably the best education system in Africa. A sound curriculum for black Zimbabweans was developed in the 1950s prior to the destructive Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) period. The post-independence period from […]
Spell out parents, professionals’ roles in education system
The Herald 10 January 2012 Over the past 30 years the relationship between parents and the schools their children attend has undergone a long overdue revolution. Parents are no longer, and must be no longer, passive payers of fees and limit their involvement to dropping their children off and picking them up. Soon after independence, […]
Some Zimbabwe Teachers Embark on Nationwide Sit-in Labor Action
VOA By Gibbs Dube 10 January 2012 Members of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe in Harare launched a sit-down labor action Tuesday on the first day of the new school term to enforce their demand for pay increases of more than 100 percent for the lowest paid instructors. A VOA correspondent who visited primary […]
CCJP applauds recognition of Tonga
The Zimbabwean 10 January 2012 The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe joins the Tonga speaking people in celebrating the official recognition of their mother tongue- Tonga through its public testing at Grade 7 level by the Ministry of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture in 2011. At the same time, CCJPZ recognises the […]
Teachers unions divided over strike
NewZimbabwe.com 9 January 2012 The main teachers unions appeared divided over a call to go on strike when schools re-open on Tuesday while education minister, David Coltart warned any job action could cripple the country’s education sector. Junior teachers currently earn about $253 a month and unions are demanding parity with the country’s poverty line […]
I’ve no power to stop strike: Coltart
Daily News By Lloyd Mbiba 9 January 2012 Harare - Education minister David Coltart says he cannot stop teachers from joining a looming civil servants’ strike, warning that public schools that open tomorrow face a return to collapse because of government’s failure to pay adequate salaries. Civil servants, of which close to half are teachers, say […]
New tuition fees regulations complete
The Herald By Felex Share 9 January 2012 Government has finished working on new education regulations that will ensure compliance with existing procedures in raising fees or levies in schools. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said the regulations would improve the country’s education system. He said in coming up with the regulations, […]