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Daily News                             By Chengetai Zvauya           29 September 2011 Harare – Education, Sports, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart says government intends to set up a professional teachers’ council to administer the welfare of the teachers and improve their professional conduct. Coltart told the Daily News that his ministry was hoping […]

Herald                        Wednesday, 28 September 2011  By Felex Share  GOVERNMENT and teachers’ unions met in Harare yesterday and agreed that parents and guardians continue paying  incentives to the educators until a solution is hammered. The two parties agreed to convene an urgent all-stakeholders’ conference to determine whether or not to entirely abolish the incentives. The conference is slated […]

SW Radio Africa By Lance Guma 28 September 2011 Education Minister Senator David Coltart has told SW Radio Africa that the controversial system of teacher’s incentives was a ‘necessary evil’ needed to stabilize the education sector. Coltart says when he took over in 2009, teachers were paid a pittance and there was total chaos in […]

Newsday By Chief Reporter 28 September 2011 The Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture and teachers’ unions have agreed to keep teachers’ incentives in place until an all stakeholders’ workshop is held next month. Education minister David Coltart last night said the parties agreed the issue was complex and needed the input of other […]

Newsdzezimbabwe 28 September 2011 GOVERNMENT and teachers’ unions met in Harare yesterday and agreed that parents and guardians continue paying  incentives to the educators until a solution is hammered. The two parties agreed to convene an urgent all-stakeholders’ conference to determine whether or not to entirely abolish the incentives. The conference is slated for October […]

Sunday Independent  By Peta Thornycroft 28 September 2011 When Tendai Biti quips that he is a finance minister without any “finance”, his audience in a church hall in Harare nodded and smiled. They knew that when Biti went into the treasury for the first time as finance minister in 2009 he found his Zanu PF […]

VOA By Sithandekile Mhlanga in Washington 27 September 2011 Education Minister Coltart called the meeting after union leaders blamed him for maintaining a policy that produced inequality among teachers as those in rural areas do not receive incentives, and some parents can’t afford them Coltart said he hoped the stakeholders meeting on incentives will make recommendations […]

Newsday By Tangai Chipangura 27 September 2011 After exactly 28 years, I returned to my old school, Gokomere High School, last week. As I left the Harare-Masvingo Highway, driving up the gravel road to the school, the familiarity of the scenery gripped me so strongly it felt eerily like the clock had wound back 20 […]

Newsday Comment 26 September 2011 Zimbabwe’s teachers are among the least paid workers in the country and have, for years, fought losing battles for reconsideration and restoration of dignity to their profession. They earn around $300 per month, minus incentives – paid by parents and these benefit mostly teachers in urban areas. It is not only criminal […]

Herald By Felix Share 26 September 2011 EDUCATION, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart will tomorrow hold a crisis meeting with the three teachers’  unions to strike a “common ground” over the payment of incentives. Confirming the meeting yesterday, the minister dismissed claims by teachers’ unions that the incentive scheme was not a Public […]