Category Archives: Press reports

IRIN 5 October 2009 HARARE, 5 October 2009 (IRIN) – Despite moves to salvage Zimbabwe’s ailing education sector, exorbitant fees are keeping many poor students from writing the examinations that will allow them to gain a school-leaving certificate at the end of 2009. A recent survey by the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) revealed […]

Sunday News By Lulu Brenda Harris 4th October 2009 This year’s public examinations are likely to be written as late as December because of printing problems, a Cabinet minister revealed last Thursday. In an interview in Bulawayo, the Minister of Education, Spors, Arts and Culture, Senator David Coltart, said his ministry had only recently engaged […]

Sunday News By Lulu Brenda Harris 4th October 2009 IN his tour of schools in Bulilima last Wednesday the 30th September 2009, the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, Senator David Coltart came face to face with the brutal reality of decay in rural primary schools. “The tour confirmed what I knew all along […]

Sunday News 4 October 2009 Comment The crisis that faces Zimbabwe’s educational system requires collective wisdom and effort to address. It cannot be left to chance or the whims of individual citizens because it concerns the future of the nation. Children are the future of this country. It is to them (young people) that we […]

Zimbabwe Guardian By Floyd Nkomo Saturday 3 October 2009 THE 226th Ordinary Session of the Zanu PF Politburo has endorsed the application by Professor Jonathan Moyo to rejoin the party. Prof. Moyo is the only independent lawmaker in Zimbabwe’s 210-seat parliament. He represents Tsholotsho North. He is the former Zanu PF Deputy Secretary for Information […]

The Zimbabwe Independent By Faith Zaba 2nd October 2009 When Zimbabwe became independent in 1980 President Robert Mugabe promised “Education for all by the year 2000”. Schools were built everywhere to ensure that every child had a school within walking distance. Secondary schools were added to primary schools in rural areas and tertiary education was […]

The Herald Herald Reporters 2nd October 2009 GOVERNMENT has thrown a lifeline to all students who failed to beat the registration deadline for the November public examinations, who are now required to register by Friday October 16 and make arrangements to pay the exam fees on a loan basis. Thousands of prospective candidates had failed […]

The Herald Herald Reporter 1st October 2009 Parents and teachers have accused the Government of neglecting children after the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture on Tuesday said no provisions would be made to accommodate thousands of students who failed to register for the November 2009 public examinations. Education Minister David Coltart said there […]

Newsnet 30 September 2009 The announcement by Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister, Senator David Coltart that his ministry is not further extending the O and A level exam deadline has raised serious concern with some quarters arguing that the ministry is taking the country back to the pre-independence era of the bottle-neck education system. […]

The Herald By Felex Share 30 September 2009 THERE is no reprieve for thousands of secondary school students who failed to beat the registration deadline for Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations, with the Government saying it is too late to do anything about their plight. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart yesterday said […]