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
Zimbabwe Cabinet Deliberations on Visit by North Korean Soccer Team Pushed Off
VOA By Gibbs Dube May 5, 2010 Cabinet discussion of whether Zimbabwe should invite the North Korean soccer team to train in the country through the June-July World Cup period has been put off to next Tuesday as President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai are in Tanzania for the World Economic Forum, a
Minister Coltart’s daughter survives lion attack
Zimbabwe Guardian 4 May 2010 The daughter of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart’s daughter was on Saturday mauled by a lion and had to undergo surgery at St Anne’s Hospital in Harare. She was attacked at the Antelope Game Park in Gweru before being hospitalised at St Anne’s Hospital. “She was operated
Zimbabwe Cabinet to Review Sensitive Issue of Hosting North Korean Soccer Teams
VOA By Gibbs Dube Washington 3 May 2010 The Zimbabwean Cabinet on Tuesday was to take up the highly sensitive question of to whether the country should invite North Korea’s soccer team to train in the country through the World Cup in neighboring South Africa, amid demands by Matabeleland regional activists that the team not