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Blessings Chidakwa-Herald Reporter THE Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) have, with immediate effect, been replaced with the new school-based projects of practical applications with the number of areas covered by the non-examination process reduced from about eight to one for each subject. Learners in primary schools will now be offered a maximum of six learning […]
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Precious Manomano-Herald Reporter The Government has so far employed 1 800 teachers with the recruitment of 5 000 more educators underway. Apart from that, Government is also in the process of building 2 800 schools to further reduce the distance learners walk to school. Speaking during a meeting with teachers’ unions and other stakeholders in […]
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Bulawayo Bureau INFORMATION technology servers are to be set up in rural schools by the Government to enable schools to access textbooks virtually as part of efforts to tackle challenges associated with the shortage of reading material, a contributory factor to a low pass rate. The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) last week released Ordinary […]
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Rumbidzayi Zinyuke and Maxwell Tapatapa THE Government will invoke Statutory Instrument 1 of 2000 against any school which forces parents and guardians to buy uniforms exclusively from the schools. Although the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has authorised schools to make and sell uniforms, it has made it clear that they should not […]
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Maxwell Tapatapa-Herald Reporter The fate of the present continuous assessment learning activities in primary and secondary schools and whether to remove or realign it will be known around February after President Mnangagwa and his Cabinet sit to assess recommendations made by stakeholders. Primary and Secondary Education Minister Torerayi Moyo said yesterday in an interview with […]
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Wallace Ruzvidzo-Herald Reporter President Mnangagwa, who is the Chancellor of all State Universities, yesterday capped 3 616 graduates at the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU)’s 21st graduation ceremony in Harare. Of these, 2 316 were female and 1 300 males with 202 of them being physically capped by the President and Chancellor. Overally, 64 percent of […]
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Remember Deketeke-Herald Reporter FORM ONE entrance tests have been outlawed, amid reports that the screening method was being used as a money-making gimmick by some schools. Government has since directed that only Grade Seven results be used for admission into Form One. Speaking at a UNICEF training on Children’s rights, Ministry of Primary and secondary […]
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Zvamaida Murwira in Masvingo Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) has registered nine trademarks with the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation in various disciplines, while six more are still pending as the Second Republic’s Education 5.0 continues to bear fruit in the use of research and innovation as a means to grow the economy. This was said […]
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Mukudzei Chingwere-Herald Reporter Zimbabwe’s heritage-based Education 5.0 model, should start right from primary school, if it is to attain the desired results that will boost economic development, Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has said. He said this in his remarks at the inaugural National Research, Science, Technology and Innovation conference opened by President Mnangagwa in […]
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Blessings Chidakwa–Herald Reporter PRESIDENT Mnangagwa, who is Chancellor of all State Universities, yesterday capped degrees and diplomas to 639 students during the Harare Institute of Technology’s 14th graduation ceremony. This year’s graduation had 100 more graduates compared to last year’s, demonstrating that more people continue to invest faith in education as a tool for social […]
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Mukudzei Chingwere recently in HAVANA, Cuba Students pursuing tertiary education outside the country have a role to play in economic development and Government will continue to support them, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Ambassador Frederick Shava has said. He was speaking in Havana, Cuba when Zimbabwean students studying medicine and engineering on the […]
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Tendai Rupapa-Senior Reporter ANGEL of Hope patron First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa joined an exclusive club of luminaries after being conferred with a Doctor of Philosophy in Law Honorary Degree by the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) in recognition of her life-changing philanthropic works, torching wild celebrations at the country’s oldest institution of higher learning. It […]
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Zvamaida Murwira-Senior Reporter The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education should reduce the number of subjects pupils are learning under Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) and allow them to concentrate on those areas they are good at, legislators have said. Legislators feel the ministry has turned learners into “Jacks of all trades but masters of […]
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Tendai Rupapa and Thupeyo Muleya in BEITBRIDGE SCHOOLchildren must focus on education and shun drugs and early sexual relationships which only pile misery on them, First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa has said. She made the remarks during her educative Nhanga/Gota/Ixhiba session in Beitbridge aimed at moulding morally upright children at a time when drug abuse, […]
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Tendai Rupapa-Senior Reporter ZIMBABWEANS are grateful for First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa’s work which has vastly and visibly changed society and enhanced ordinary people’s contribution to the economy, Deputy Minister of Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Barbara Rwodzi has said. She made remarks in a wide-ranging interview on an international television network with TV BRICS’ […]